Piniphantes

Piniphantes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Piniphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996[1]
Type species
P. pinicola (Simon, 1884)
Species
9, see text

Piniphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1996.^[2]

Species

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

• Piniphantes agnellus (Maurer & Thaler, 1988) – France, Italy
• Piniphantes cinereus (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan
• Piniphantes cirratus (Thaler, 1986) – France (Corsica)
• Piniphantes himalayensis (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal, Pakistan
• Piniphantes macer (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan
• Piniphantes pinicola (Simon, 1884) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Turkmenistan
• Piniphantes plumatus (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan
• Piniphantes uzbekistanicus (Tanasevitch, 1983) – Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan
• Piniphantes zonsteini (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Piniphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
2. 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.