Frontinella

Frontinella
Male bowl and doily spider(F. communis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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)
Species
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^[update] it contains nine species and one subspecies, found in China, El Salvador, Mexico, and the United States:[1]

• Frontinella bella Bryant, 1948 – Hispaniola
• Frontinella huachuca Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – USA, Mexico
  • Frontinella h. benevola Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico, Arizona[3]
• Frontinella hubeiensis Li & Song, 1993 – China
• Frontinella laeta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) (type) – Mexico
• Frontinella omega Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
• Frontinella potosia Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico
• Frontinella pyramitela (Walckenaer, 1841) – North, Central America
• Frontinella tibialis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – Mexico
• Frontinella zhui Li & Song, 1993 – China

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (A–H)
• Neriene

References

1. "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.
2. Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902), "Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology
3. "Genus Frontinella". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-14.