Tenuiphantes

Tenuiphantes
T. cristatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Tenuiphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996 [1]
Type species
T. tenuis (Blackwall, 1852)
Species
44, see text

Tenuiphantes is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1996. ^[2]

Species

As of May 2019 ^[update] it contains forty-four species, found in Asia, Oceania, Africa, Europe, Argentina, Micronesia, New Zealand, and Chile: ^[1]

• Tenuiphantes aduncus (Zhu, Li & Sha, 1986) – China
• Tenuiphantes aequalis (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Turkey, Russia, Armenia
• Tenuiphantes alacris (Blackwall, 1853) – Europe
• Tenuiphantes altimontanus Tanasevitch & Saaristo, 2006 – Nepal
• Tenuiphantes ancatus (Li & Zhu, 1989) – China
• Tenuiphantes ateripes (Tanasevitch, 1988) – Russia
• Tenuiphantes canariensis (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Tenuiphantes cantabropyrenaeus Bosmans, 2016 – Spain, France
• Tenuiphantes contortus (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia
• Tenuiphantes cracens (Zorsch, 1937) – North America
• Tenuiphantes crassus Tanasevitch & Saaristo, 2006 – Nepal
• Tenuiphantes cristatus (Menge, 1866) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus
• Tenuiphantes drenskyi (van Helsdingen, 1977) – Bulgaria
• Tenuiphantes flavipes (Blackwall, 1854) – Europe
• Tenuiphantes floriana (van Helsdingen, 1977) – Romania, Macedonia, Greece
• Tenuiphantes fogarasensis (Weiss, 1986) – Romania
• Tenuiphantes fulvus (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Tenuiphantes herbicola (Simon, 1884) – Spain, France (incl. Corsica), Italy, Croatia, Albania, Greece, Algeria
• Tenuiphantes jacksoni (Schenkel, 1925) – Switzerland, Balkans?, Turkey?
• Tenuiphantes jacksonoides (van Helsdingen, 1977) – Switzerland, Germany, Austria
• Tenuiphantes lagonaki Tanasevitch, Ponomarev & Chumachenko, 2016 – Russia (Caucasus)
• Tenuiphantes leprosoides (Schmidt, 1975) – Canary Is.
• Tenuiphantes mengei (Kulczyński, 1887) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia
• Tenuiphantes miguelensis (Wunderlich, 1992) – Azores, Madeira
• Tenuiphantes monachus (Simon, 1884) – Europe
• Tenuiphantes morosus (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan
• Tenuiphantes nigriventris (L. Koch, 1879) – Northern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Japan
• Tenuiphantes perseus (van Helsdingen, 1977) – Russia, Central Asia, Iran
• Tenuiphantes plumipes (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal
• Tenuiphantes retezaticus (Ruzicka, 1985) – Romania
• Tenuiphantes sabulosus (Keyserling, 1886) – North America
• Tenuiphantes spiniger (Simon, 1929) – France
• Tenuiphantes stramencola (Scharff, 1990) – Tanzania
• Tenuiphantes striatiscapus (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Tenuiphantes suborientalis Tanasevitch, 2000 – Russia
• Tenuiphantes teberdaensis Tanasevitch, 2010 – Russia (Caucasus), Georgia
• Tenuiphantes tenebricola (Wider, 1834) – Europe, Turkey, Russia, China
• Tenuiphantes tenebricoloides (Schenkel, 1938) – Canary Is., Madeira
• Tenuiphantes tenuis (Blackwall, 1852) (type) – Europe, Macaronesia, Northern Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Central Asia. Introduced to USA, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand
• Tenuiphantes wunderlichi (Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996) – Turkey
• Tenuiphantes zebra (Emerton, 1882) – North America
• Tenuiphantes zelatus (Zorsch, 1937) – Canada, USA
• Tenuiphantes zibus (Zorsch, 1937) – Canada, USA
• Tenuiphantes zimmermanni (Bertkau, 1890) – Europe, Russia

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

References

1. "Gen. Tenuiphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-24.
2. Saaristo, M. I.; Tanasevitch, A. V. (1996). "Redelimitation of the subfamily Micronetinae Hull, 1920 and the genus Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 with descriptions of some new genera (Aranei, Linyphiidae)". Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck. 83: 163–186.