Piniphantes Explained

Piniphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1996.^[1]

Species

it contains nine species:^[2]

• Piniphantes agnellus (Maurer & Thaler, 1988) – France, Italy
• Piniphantes cinereus (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan
• Piniphantes cirratus (Thaler, 1986) – France (Corsica)
• Piniphantes himalayensis (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal, Pakistan
• Piniphantes macer (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan
• Piniphantes pinicola (Simon, 1884) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Turkmenistan
• Piniphantes plumatus (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan
• Piniphantes uzbekistanicus (Tanasevitch, 1983) – Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan
• Piniphantes zonsteini (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

Notes and References

1. Saaristo. M. I.. Tanasevitch. A. V.. 1996. Redelimitation of the subfamily Micronetinae Hull, 1920 and the genus Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 with descriptions of some new genera (Aranei, Linyphiidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck. 163–186. 83. Michael_Saaristo.
2. Gen. Piniphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-20. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.