Ipa is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo in 2007.[2]

Ipa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Ipa
Saaristo, 2007[1]
Type species
I. keyserlingi
(Ausserer, 1867)
Species

4, see text

Species edit

As of May 2019 it contains four species, found in the Czech Republic, France, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine:[1]

  • Ipa keyserlingi (Ausserer, 1867) (type) – Europe, Caucasus
  • Ipa pepticus (Tanasevitch, 1988) – Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia
  • Ipa spasskyi (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Turkey, Ukraine, Russia (Europe, West Siberia), Kazakhstan
  • Ipa terrenus (L. Koch, 1879) – France, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Ipa Saaristo, 2007". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  2. ^ Saaristo, M. I. (2007). "A new subfamily of linyphiid spiders based on a new genus created for the keyserlingi-group of the genus Lepthyphantes (Aranei: Linyphiidae)". Arthropoda Selecta. 16: 33–42.