Mughiphantes

Mughiphantes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Mughiphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1999 [1]
Type species
M. mughi (Fickert, 1875)
Species
60, see text

Mughiphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1999. ^[2]

Species

As of May 2019 ^[update] it contains sixty species: ^[1]

• M. aculifer (Tanasevitch, 1988) – Russia
• M. afghanus (Denis, 1958) – Afghanistan
• M. alticola (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal
• M. anachoretus (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal
• M. ancoriformis (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal
• M. arlaudi (Denis, 1954) – France
• M. armatus (Kulczyński, 1905) – Central Europe
• M. baebleri (Lessert, 1910) – Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia)
• M. beishanensis Tanasevitch, 2006 – China
• M. bicornis Tanasevitch & Saaristo, 2006 – Nepal
• M. brunneri (Thaler, 1984) – Italy
• M. carnicus (van Helsdingen, 1982) – Italy
• M. cornutus (Schenkel, 1927) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan
• M. cuspidatus Tanasevitch & Saaristo, 2006 – Nepal
• M. edentulus Tanasevitch, 2010 – United Arab Emirates
• M. falxus Tanasevitch & Saaristo, 2006 – Nepal
• M. faustus (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal
• M. hadzii (Miller & Polenec, 1975) – Austria, Slovenia
• M. handschini (Schenkel, 1919) – Central Europe
• M. hindukuschensis (Miller & Buchar, 1972) – Afghanistan
• M. ignavus (Simon, 1884) – France
• M. inermus Tanasevitch & Saaristo, 2006 – Nepal
• M. jaegeri Tanasevitch, 2006 – China
• M. johannislupi (Denis, 1953) – France
• M. jugorum (Denis, 1954) – France
• M. lithoclasicola (Deltshev, 1983) – Bulgaria
• M. logunovi Tanasevitch, 2000 – Russia
• M. longiproper Tanasevitch & Saaristo, 2006 – Nepal
• M. martensi Tanasevitch, 2006 – China
• M. marusiki (Tanasevitch, 1988) – Russia, Mongolia
• M. merretti (Millidge, 1975) – Italy
• M. mughi (Fickert, 1875) (type) – Europe, Russia
• M. nigromaculatus (Zhu & Wen, 1983) – Russia, China
• M. numilionis (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal
• M. occultus (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal
• M. omega (Denis, 1952) – Romania
• M. ovtchinnikovi (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Kyrgyzstan
• M. pulcher (Kulczyński, 1881) – Central Europe
• M. pulcheroides (Wunderlich, 1985) – Italy
• M. pyrenaeus (Denis, 1953) – France
• M. restrictus Tanasevitch & Saaristo, 2006 – Nepal
• M. rotundatus (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal
• M. rupium (Thaler, 1984) – Germany, Austria
• M. setifer (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal
• M. setosus Tanasevitch & Saaristo, 2006 – Nepal
• M. severus (Thaler, 1990) – Austria
• M. sherpa (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal
• M. sobrioides Tanasevitch, 2000 – Russia
• M. sobrius (Thorell, 1871) – Norway (Svalbard), Russia (Europe, Siberia)
• M. styriacus (Thaler, 1984) – Austria
• M. suffusus (Strand, 1901) – Scandinavia, Russia
• M. taczanowskii (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Russia, Mongolia
• M. tienschangensis (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Central Asia
• M. triglavensis (Miller & Polenec, 1975) – Austria, Slovenia
• M. variabilis (Kulczyński, 1887) – Central Europe
• M. varians (Kulczyński, 1882) – Eastern Europe
• M. vittatus (Spassky, 1941) – Central Asia
• M. whymperi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) – Ireland, Britain, Scandinavia, Russia
• M. yadongensis (Hu, 2001) – China
• M. yeti (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Mughiphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1999". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-16.
2. Saaristo, M. I.; Tanasevitch, A. V. (1999). "Reclassification of the mughi-group of the genus Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 (sensu lato) (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Micronetinae)". Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck. 86: 139–147.