Hylyphantes

Hylyphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.^[3] It is distinct from related genera by a pair of spiral copulatory ducts in the female, which are matched by a turbinated embolus in the male.^[4] Both sexes are similar in appearance; the male has no modifications.^[4]

Hylyphantes
H. gramnicola
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Subfamily:	Erigoninae
Genus:	Hylyphantes Simon, 1884[1]
Type species
H. nigritus (Simon, 1881)
Species
5, see text
Synonyms[1]
Erigonidium Smith, 1904[2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains five species, found in China, Japan, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Russia, Thailand, and Vietnam:^[1]

• Hylyphantes geniculatus Tu & Li, 2003 – China
• Hylyphantes graminicola (Sundevall, 1830) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), China, Korea, Japan, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
• Hylyphantes nigritus (Simon, 1881) (type) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
• Hylyphantes spirellus Tu & Li, 2005 – China
• Hylyphantes tanikawai Ono & Saito, 2001 – Japan (Ryukyu Is.)

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (A–H)

References

1. "Gen. Hylyphantes Simon, 1884". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
2. Wunderlich, J. (1970). "Zur Synonymie einiger Spinnen-Gattungen und -Arten aus Europa und Nordamerika (Arachnida: Araneae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 51: 406.
3. Simon, E. (1884). Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie.
4. Tu, L.; Li, S. (2003). "A review of the spider genus Hylyphantes (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from China" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 51 (2): 209–214. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-12-29. Retrieved 2006-12-22.