Selenyphantes is a genus of sheet weavers. It was first described by Willis J. Gertsch & L. I. Davis in 1946.[3]
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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: | Selenyphantes Gertsch & Davis, 1946[1] |
| Type species | |
| Selenyphantes longispinosus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896)
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Species edit
As of August 2021[update] it contains six species, found in Costa Rica, Mexico and Guatemala.[1][4]
- Selenyphantes costaricensis Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Costa Rica
- Selenyphantes gaimani Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico
- Selenyphantes iztactepetl Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico
- Selenyphantes longispinosus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) (type) – Mexico
- Selenyphantes orizabae Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico, Guatemala
- Selenyphantes volcanicus Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c "Gen. Selenyphantes Gertsch & Davis, 1946". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
- ^ 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. ISBN 978-0-913424-10-0.
- ^ Gertsch, W. J.; Davis, L. I. (1946). "Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico. V". American Museum Novitates (1313): 1–11.
- ^ Thiago da Silva Moreira; Gustavo Hormiga (2021). "Systematics of the Neotropical spider genera Jalapyphantes and Selenyphantes and the circumscription of the Pocobletus clade (Araneae: Linyphiidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 192 (3): 896–957. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa124.