Hylyphantes

Hylyphantes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Subfamily: Erigoninae
Genus: Hylyphantes
Simon, 1884
Type species
Erigone nigrita
Simon, 1881
Species

See text.

Diversity
5 species

Hylyphantes is a genus of linyphiid spiders.

Both sexes are similar in appearance, the male has no modifications. The genus is distinct from related genera by a pair of spiral copulatory ducts in the female, which is matched by a turbinated embolus in the male.[1]

Species

References

  1. Tu, L. & Li, S. (2003). A review of the spider genus Hylyphantes (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from China. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51(2):209-214. PDF
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