Frontinella
| Frontinella | |
|---|---|
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| Male bowl and doily spider(F. communis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Frontinella F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902[1] |
| Type species | |
| F. laeta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898)
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| Species | |
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9, see text | |
Frontinella is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1902.[2]
Species[]
As of May 2019 it contains nine species and one subspecies, found in China, El Salvador, Mexico, and the United States:[1]
- Bryant, 1948 – Hispaniola
- Frontinella huachuca Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – USA, Mexico
- Frontinella h. benevola Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico, Arizona[3]
- Li & Song, 1993 – China
- Frontinella laeta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) (type) – Mexico
- Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
- Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico
- Frontinella pyramitela (Walckenaer, 1841) – North, Central America
- F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – Mexico
- Li & Song, 1993 – China
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Frontinella F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902), "Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology
- ^ "Genus Frontinella". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
Categories:
- Araneomorphae genera
- Linyphiidae
- Spiders of China
- Spiders of North America
- Taxa named by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
- Linyphiidae stubs