Bolyphantes | |
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B. alticeps | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Linyphiidae |
Genus: | Bolyphantes C. L. Koch, 1837 [1] |
Type species | |
B. luteolus (Blackwall, 1833) | |
Species | |
17, see text |
Bolyphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1837. [2]
As of May 2019 [update] it contains seventeen species: [1]
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