Paraletes

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Paraletes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Paraletes
Millidge, 1991 [1]
Type species
P. timidus
Millidge, 1991
Species

2, see text

Paraletes is a genus of South American dwarf spiders that was first described by Alfred Frank Millidge in 1991. [2]

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Species

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

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References

  1. 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Paraletes Millidge, 1991". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  2. Millidge, A. F. (1991). "Further linyphiid spiders (Araneae) from South America". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 205: 1–199.