Tenuiphantes Explained

Tenuiphantes is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1996.^[1]

Species

it contains forty-four species, found in Asia, Oceania, Africa, Europe, Argentina, Micronesia, New Zealand, and Chile:^[2]

• Tenuiphantes aduncus (Zhu, Li & Sha, 1986) – China
• Tenuiphantes aequalis (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Turkey, Russia, Armenia
• Tenuiphantes alacris (Blackwall, 1853) – Europe
• Tenuiphantes altimontanus Tanasevitch & Saaristo, 2006 – Nepal
• Tenuiphantes ancatus (Li & Zhu, 1989) – China
• Tenuiphantes ateripes (Tanasevitch, 1988) – Russia
• Tenuiphantes canariensis (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Tenuiphantes cantabropyrenaeus Bosmans, 2016 – Spain, France
• Tenuiphantes contortus (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia
• Tenuiphantes cracens (Zorsch, 1937) – North America
• Tenuiphantes crassus Tanasevitch & Saaristo, 2006 – Nepal
• Tenuiphantes cristatus (Menge, 1866) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus
• Tenuiphantes drenskyi (van Helsdingen, 1977) – Bulgaria
• Tenuiphantes flavipes (Blackwall, 1854) – Europe
• Tenuiphantes floriana (van Helsdingen, 1977) – Romania, Macedonia, Greece
• Tenuiphantes fogarasensis (Weiss, 1986) – Romania
• Tenuiphantes fulvus (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Tenuiphantes herbicola (Simon, 1884) – Spain, France (incl. Corsica), Italy, Croatia, Albania, Greece, Algeria
• Tenuiphantes jacksoni (Schenkel, 1925) – Switzerland, Balkans?, Turkey?
• Tenuiphantes jacksonoides (van Helsdingen, 1977) – Switzerland, Germany, Austria
• Tenuiphantes lagonaki Tanasevitch, Ponomarev & Chumachenko, 2016 – Russia (Caucasus)
• Tenuiphantes leprosoides (Schmidt, 1975) – Canary Is.
• Tenuiphantes mengei (Kulczyński, 1887) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia
• Tenuiphantes miguelensis (Wunderlich, 1992) – Azores, Madeira
• Tenuiphantes monachus (Simon, 1884) – Europe
• Tenuiphantes morosus (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan
• Tenuiphantes nigriventris (L. Koch, 1879) – Northern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Japan
• Tenuiphantes perseus (van Helsdingen, 1977) – Russia, Central Asia, Iran
• Tenuiphantes plumipes (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal
• Tenuiphantes retezaticus (Ruzicka, 1985) – Romania
• Tenuiphantes sabulosus (Keyserling, 1886) – North America
• Tenuiphantes spiniger (Simon, 1929) – France
• Tenuiphantes stramencola (Scharff, 1990) – Tanzania
• Tenuiphantes striatiscapus (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Tenuiphantes suborientalis Tanasevitch, 2000 – Russia
• Tenuiphantes teberdaensis Tanasevitch, 2010 – Russia (Caucasus), Georgia
• Tenuiphantes tenebricola (Wider, 1834) – Europe, Turkey, Russia, China
• Tenuiphantes tenebricoloides (Schenkel, 1938) – Canary Is., Madeira
• Tenuiphantes tenuis (Blackwall, 1852) (type) – Europe, Macaronesia, Northern Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Central Asia. Introduced to USA, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand
• Tenuiphantes wunderlichi (Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996) – Turkey
• Tenuiphantes zebra (Emerton, 1882) – North America
• Tenuiphantes zelatus (Zorsch, 1937) – Canada, USA
• Tenuiphantes zibus (Zorsch, 1937) – Canada, USA
• Tenuiphantes zimmermanni (Bertkau, 1890) – Europe, Russia

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

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. Tenuiphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-24. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.