Selenyphantes

Selenyphantes is a monotypic genus of sheet weavers containing the single species, Selenyphantes longispinosus. It was first described by Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker & L. I. Davis in 1946,[3] and has only been found in Guatemala and Mexico.[1]

Selenyphantes
Temporal range: Neogene– Present
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Selenyphantes
Gertsch & Davis, 1946[1]
Species:
S. longispinosus
Binomial name
Selenyphantes longispinosus
Synonyms[1]
  • Palaeolinyphia Wunderlich, 1986[2]

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Selenyphantes Gertsch & Davis, 1946". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  2. Platnick, N. I. (1993). Advances in spider taxonomy 1988-1991, with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980. New York: The New York Entomological Society. p. 349.
  3. Gertsch, W. J.; Davis, L. I. (1946). "Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico. V". American Museum Novitates. 1313: 1–11.


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