Obscuriphantes

Obscuriphantes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Obscuriphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 2000 [1]
Type species
O. obscurus (Blackwall, 1841)
Species
3, see text

Obscuriphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 2000. ^[2]

Species

As of May 2019 ^[update] it contains three species and one subspecies: ^[1]

• Obscuriphantes bacelarae (Schenkel, 1938) – Portugal, Spain, France
• Obscuriphantes obscurus (Blackwall, 1841) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), China
  • Obscuriphantes o. dilutior (Simon, 1929) – France
• Obscuriphantes pseudoobscurus (Marusik, Hippa & Koponen, 1996) – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East), Kazakhstan

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Obscuriphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 2000". 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. (2000). "Systematics of the Bolyphantes-Poeciloneta genus-group of the subfamily Micronetinae Hull, 1920 (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae)". Reichenbachia. 33: 255–265.