Selenyphantes

Selenyphantes Temporal range: Neogene– Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Selenyphantes Gertsch & Davis, 1946 [1]
Type species
Selenyphantes longispinosus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896)
Species
6, see text
Synonyms [1]
PalaeolinyphiaWunderlich, 1986 [2]

Selenyphantes is a genus of sheet weavers. It was first described by Willis J. Gertsch & L. I. Davis in 1946. ^[3]

Species

As of August 2021 ^[update] it contains six species, found in Costa Rica, Mexico and Guatemala. ^{[1] [4]}

• Selenyphantes costaricensis Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Costa Rica
• Selenyphantes gaimani Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico
• Selenyphantes iztactepetl Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico
• Selenyphantes longispinosus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) (type) – Mexico
• Selenyphantes orizabae Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico, Guatemala
• Selenyphantes volcanicus Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

References

1. "Gen. Selenyphantes Gertsch & Davis, 1946". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2021-08-04.
2. Platnick, N. I. (1993). Advances in spider taxonomy 1988-1991, with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980 . New York: The New York Entomological Society. p.  349. ISBN   978-0-913424-10-0.
3. Gertsch, W. J.; Davis, L. I. (1946). "Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico. V". American Museum Novitates (1313): 1–11.
4. Thiago da Silva Moreira; Gustavo Hormiga (2021). "Systematics of the Neotropical spider genera Jalapyphantes and Selenyphantes and the circumscription of the Pocobletus clade (Araneae: Linyphiidae)" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 192 (3): 896–957. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa124.