Filistatinella

Filistatinella is a genus of North American crevice weavers that was first described by Willis J. Gertsch & Wilton Ivie in 1936.[2] They are 1.5 to 3.5 millimetres (0.059 to 0.138 in) long,[3] and have a dark brown abdomen, longer than wide, with a few gray scales.[4]

Filistatinella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Filistatidae
Genus: Filistatinella
Gertsch & Ivie, 1936[1]
Type species
F. crassipalpis
(Gertsch, 1935)
Species

10, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains ten species:[1]

  • Filistatinella chilindrina Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2017 – Mexico
  • Filistatinella crassipalpis (Gertsch, 1935) (type) – Southern Texas[5]
  • Filistatinella domestica Desales-Lara, 2012 – Mexico
  • Filistatinella hermosa Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2017 – USA
  • Filistatinella howdyall Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2017 – USA
  • Filistatinella kahloae Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2017 – Mexico
  • Filistatinella palaciosi Jiménez & Palacios-Cardiel, 2012 – Mexico
  • Filistatinella pistrix Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2017 – USA
  • Filistatinella spatulata Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2017 – USA, Mexico
  • Filistatinella tohono Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2017 – USA

References
  1. "Gen. Filistatinella Gertsch & Ivie, 1936". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. Gertsch, W. J.; Ivie, W. (1936). "Descriptions of new American spiders". American Museum Novitates. 858: 1–25.
  3. Ubick, D.; Paquin, P.; Cushing, P.E.; Roth, V. (2005). American Arachnological Society.
  4. Gertsch, W.J. (1935). Spiders from the Southwestern United States with descriptions of new species. American Museum of Natural History.
  5. "Genus Filistatinella". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-04.


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