Pityohyphantes Explained

Pityohyphantes, commonly known as hammock spiders, is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1929.^[1] The name comes from the Ancient Greek Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Πίτυς (pitys), meaning "pine", and hyphantes, meaning "weaver".^[2]

Species

it contains sixteen species and two subspecies, found in Europe and Eastern Europe:^[3]

• Pityohyphantes alticeps Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA, Canada
• Pityohyphantes brachygynus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA, Canada
• Pityohyphantes costatus (Hentz, 1850) – USA, Canada
  • Pityohyphantes c. annulipes (Banks, 1892) – North America
• Pityohyphantes cristatus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA, Canada
  • Pityohyphantes c. coloradensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA
• Pityohyphantes hesperus (Chamberlin, 1920) – USA
• Pityohyphantes kamela Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA, Canada
• Pityohyphantes limitaneus (Emerton, 1915) – USA, Canada
• Pityohyphantes lomondensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 – USA
• Pityohyphantes minidoka Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA, Canada
• Pityohyphantes navajo Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA
• Pityohyphantes palilis (L. Koch, 1870) – Central, Eastern Europe
• Pityohyphantes pallidus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA
• Pityohyphantes phrygianus (C. L. Koch, 1836) (type) – Europe, Russia to Kazakhstan, Japan
• Pityohyphantes rubrofasciatus (Keyserling, 1886) – USA, Canada
• Pityohyphantes subarcticus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – Canada, USA (Alaska)
• Pityohyphantes tacoma Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

External links

Image of a female P. tacoma

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E.. 1929. Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 3e partie. Roret, Paris. 533–772. Eugène_Simon.
2. Web site: Genus Pityohyphantes. BugGuide. 2019-06-22.
3. Gen. Pityohyphantes Simon, 1929. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-22. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.