Ipa (spider)

Ipa is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo in 2007.^[2]

Ipa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Ipa Saaristo, 2007[1]
Type species
I. keyserlingi (Ausserer, 1867)
Species
4, see text

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains four species, found in the Czech Republic, France, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine:^[1]

• Ipa keyserlingi (Ausserer, 1867) (type) – Europe, Caucasus
• Ipa pepticus (Tanasevitch, 1988) – Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia
• Ipa spasskyi (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Turkey, Ukraine, Russia (Europe, West Siberia), Kazakhstan
• Ipa terrenus (L. Koch, 1879) – France, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Ipa Saaristo, 2007". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
2. Saaristo, M. I. (2007). "A new subfamily of linyphiid spiders based on a new genus created for the keyserlingi-group of the genus Lepthyphantes (Aranei: Linyphiidae)". Arthropoda Selecta. 16: 33–42.