Megalepthyphantes

Megalepthyphantes
M. nebulosus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Megalepthyphantes Wunderlich, 1994[1]
Type species
M. nebulosus (Sundevall, 1830)
Species
17, see text

Megalepthyphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1994.^[2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains seventeen species:^[1]

• Megalepthyphantes auresensis Bosmans, 2006 – Algeria
• Megalepthyphantes bkheitae (Bosmans & Bouragba, 1992) – Algeria
• Megalepthyphantes brignolii Tanasevitch, 2014 – Morocco
• Megalepthyphantes camelus (Tanasevitch, 1990) – Iran, Azerbaijan
• Megalepthyphantes collinus (L. Koch, 1872) – Europe
• Megalepthyphantes globularis Tanasevitch, 2011 – Turkey
• Megalepthyphantes hellinckxorum Bosmans, 2006 – Algeria
• Megalepthyphantes kandahar Tanasevitch, 2009 – Afghanistan
• Megalepthyphantes kronebergi (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Iran, Kazakhstan to China
• Megalepthyphantes kuhitangensis (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Israel, Central Asia, China
• Megalepthyphantes lydiae Wunderlich, 1994 – Greece
• Megalepthyphantes minotaur Tanasevitch & Wunderlich, 2015 – Greece (Crete)
• Megalepthyphantes nebulosoides (Wunderlich, 1977) – Iran, Central Asia
• Megalepthyphantes nebulosus (Sundevall, 1830) (type) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (European to Far East)
• Megalepthyphantes pseudocollinus Saaristo, 1997 – Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Caucasus, Turkey, Iran
• Megalepthyphantes turkestanicus (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, China
• Megalepthyphantes turkeyensis Tanasevitch, Kunt & Seyyar, 2005 – Cyprus, Turkey

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Megalepthyphantes Wunderlich, 1994". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
2. Wunderlich, J. (1994). "Beschreibung der neuen Spinnen-Gattung Megalepthyphantes aus der Familie der Baldachinspinnen und einer bisher unbekannten Art aus Griechenland (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae)". Entomologische Zeitschrift, Frankfurt a.M. 104: 168–171.