Hylyphantes Explained

Hylyphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.^[1] 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.^[2] Both sexes are similar in appearance; the male has no modifications.

Species

it contains five species, found in China, Japan, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Russia, Thailand, and Vietnam:^[3]

• 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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E.. 1884. Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Eugène_Simon.
2. 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. 2006-12-22. 2006-12-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20061229224850/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/51/51rbz209-214.pdf. dead.
3. Gen. Hylyphantes Simon, 1884. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-15. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.