Improphantes
| Improphantes | |
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| Female Improphantes decolor | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Improphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996[1] |
| Type species | |
| I. improbulus (Simon, 1929) | |
| Species | |
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20, see text | |
Improphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1996.[2]
Species
[edit]As of May 2019[update] it contains twenty species, found in Algeria, China, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, and Turkey:[1]
- Improphantes biconicus (Tanasevitch, 1992) – Russia (Far East), Japan
- Improphantes breviscapus Tanasevitch, 2013 – Israel
- Improphantes complicatus (Emerton, 1882) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
- Improphantes contus Tanasevitch & Piterkina, 2007 – Kazakhstan
- Improphantes cypriot Tanasevitch, 2011 – Cyprus
- Improphantes decolor (Westring, 1861) – Europe, North Africa
- Improphantes djazairi (Bosmans, 1985) – Algeria
- Improphantes falcatus (Bosmans, 1979) – Kenya
- Improphantes flexilis (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East)
- Improphantes furcabilis (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
- Improphantes geniculatus (Kulczyński, 1898) – Germany to Russia (West Siberia)
- Improphantes holmi (Kronestedt, 1975) – Sweden, Finland, Russia (Urals)
- Improphantes huberti (Wunderlich, 1980) – France (Corsica)
- Improphantes improbulus (Simon, 1929) (type) – Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia (Russia, Kazakhstan), China
- Improphantes mauensis (Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya
- Improphantes multidentatus (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
- Improphantes nitidus (Thorell, 1875) – Europe
- Improphantes pamiricus (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Tajikistan
- Improphantes potanini (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Kyrgyzstan
- Improphantes turok Tanasevitch, 2011 – Turkey
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Gen. Improphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ↑ 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. 83: 163–186.