Yllenus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1868.[2] Until 2019,[3] it was considered a senior synonym of Pseudomogrus, and many of the species formerly placed here were transferred to new genera Logunyllus and Marusyllus by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016.[4]

Yllenus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Yllenus
Simon, 1868[1]
Type species
Y. arenarius
Simon, 1868
Species

18, see text

Y. arenarius is peculiar in building silken nests under the sand surface of sandy dunes it inhabits.[5]

Species

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As of September 2019 it contains eighteen species, found from central Europe to China:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Yllenus Simon, 1868". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1868). "Monographie des espèces européennes de la famille des attides (Attidae Sundewall. - Saltigradae Latreille)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 8 (4): 529–726.
  3. ^ Marusik, Y. M.; Blick, T. (2019). "Further new synonyms of jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 57 (1): 89. doi:10.30963/aramit5717.
  4. ^ Prószyński, J. (1968). "Systematic revision of the genus Yllenus Simon, 1868 (Araneida, Salticidae)". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa. 26: 415.
  5. ^ Bartos, Maciej (2002). "The sub-sand nests of Yllenus arenarius (Araneae, Salticidae): Structure, function and construction behavior". The Journal of Arachnology. 30 (2): 275–280. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0275:TSSNOY]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 3706271. S2CID 86508594.
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