Dendryphantes

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Dendryphantes
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Dendryphantes rudis on oak leaf in western Saxony
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Dendryphantes
C. L. Koch, 1837 [1]
Type species
D. hastatus
(Clerck, 1757)
Species

69, see text

Dendryphantes is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1837. [2]

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Species

As of June 2019 it contains sixty-nine species, found in Africa, Asia, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, North America, and on Saint Helena: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Dendryphantes C. L. Koch, 1837". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  2. Koch, C. L. (1837). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. pp.  1–39. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561.