Mallos (spider)
Mallos | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Dictynidae |
Genus: | Mallos O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902[1] |
Type species | |
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902
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Species | |
16, see text |
Mallos is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1902.[2] Among the genus, Mallos gregalis is known to be a social spider species, living in groups and signaling each other by vibrating their web.[3]
Species[]
As of May 2019 it contains sixteen species:[1]
- Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 – USA
- Gertsch, 1946 – USA, Mexico
- Bond & Opell, 1997 – Mexico
- (Becker, 1886) – USA, Mexico
- (Keyserling, 1881) – Venezuela, Peru
- Bond & Opell, 1997 – Mexico
- Mallos gregalis (Simon, 1909) – Mexico
- (Chamberlin, 1916) – Mexico to Paraguay
- Gertsch, 1946 – Mexico
- Bond & Opell, 1997 – Mexico
- Gertsch, 1946 – Costa Rica, Panama
- (Chamberlin, 1919) – USA, Mexico
- (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
- O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 (type) – USA, Mexico
- Mallos pallidus (Banks, 1904) – USA, Mexico
- Mallos pearcei Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 – USA
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Mallos O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1902), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology
- ^ Bond, J. E.; Opell, B. D. (1997). "Systematics of the spider genera Mallos and Mexitlia (Araneae, Dictynidae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 119 (4): 389–445. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb00141.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05.
External links[]
- Mallos at BugGuide
- "Mallos" at the Encyclopedia of Life
Categories:
- Araneomorphae genera
- Dictynidae
- Spiders of North America
- Spiders of South America
- Dictynidae stubs