Piniphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1996.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| 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)
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| Species | |
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9, see text | |
Species edit
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 edit
References edit
- ^ a b "Gen. Piniphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ 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.