Flagelliphantes

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Flagelliphantes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Flagelliphantes
Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996 [1]
Type species
F. flagellifer
(Tanasevitch, 1988)
Species
  • F. bergstromi(Schenkel, 1931)
  • F. flagellifer(Tanasevitch, 1988)
  • F. sterneri(Eskov & Marusik, 1994)
  • F. yunxia(Yang, Yao, Irfan et He, 2023)

Flagelliphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1996. [2] It was originally erected to contain three species, all found in Russia: F. bergstromi , F. flagellifer , and F. sterneri . [1] In 2023, F. yunxia from Jilin province, China was assigned to this genus. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Flagelliphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  2. 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.
  3. Yang, Lan; Yao, Zhiyuan; Irfan, Muhammad; He, Qiaoqiao (2023-05-29). "A newly recorded genus with description of a new cave-dwelling species of Flagelliphantes (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from northeastern China". Biodiversity Data Journal. 11 e105488. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e105488 . ISSN   1314-2828. PMC   10242402 . PMID   37288000.