Jalapyphantes Explained

Jalapyphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker & L. I. Davis in 1946.^[1]

Species

The genus includes the following species, found in Ecuador and Mexico:^[2]

• Jalapyphantes cuernavaca Gertsch & Davis, 1946 (type) – Mexico
• Jalapyphantes minoratus Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico
• Jalapyphantes obscurus Millidge, 1991 – Ecuador
• Jalapyphantes puebla Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico
• Jalapyphantes tricolor Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico^[3]

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

Notes and References

1. Gertsch. W. J.. Davis. L. I.. 1946. Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico. V. American Museum Novitates. 1–11. 1313. Willis J. Gertsch.
2. Gen. Jalapyphantes Gertsch & Davis, 1946. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-15. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
3. Thiago da Silva Moreira. Gustavo Hormiga. Systematics of the Neotropical spider genera Jalapyphantes and Selenyphantes and the circumscription of the Pocobletus clade (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 192 . 3 . 2021 . 896–957 . 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa124.