Mythoplastoides

Mythoplastoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Mythoplastoides ; Crosby & Bishop, 1933
Type species
	M. exiguus ; (Banks, 1892)
Species
	2, see text

Last updated January 25, 2026

Mythoplastoides is a genus of North American dwarf spiders that was first described by C. R. Crosby & S. C. Bishop in 1933.^[2]

Species

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

Mythoplastoides erectus (Emerton, 1915) – USA
Mythoplastoides exiguus (Banks, 1892) (type) – USA

References

1 2 "Gen. Mythoplastoides Crosby & Bishop, 1933". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-16.
↑ Crosby, C. R.; Bishop, S. C. (1933). "American spiders: Erigonae, males with cephalic pits". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 26: 105–172. doi: 10.1093/aesa/26.1.105 .

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[wsc-1] 1 2 "Gen. Mythoplastoides Crosby & Bishop, 1933". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-16.

[Cros1933-2] Crosby, C. R.; Bishop, S. C. (1933). "American spiders: Erigonae, males with cephalic pits". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 26: 105–172. doi: 10.1093/aesa/26.1.105 .

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