Improphantes

Improphantes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Improphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996[1]
Type species
I. improbulus (Simon, 1929)
Species
20, see text

Improphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1996.[2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains twenty species, found in Algeria, China, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, and Turkey:[1]

• Improphantes biconicus (Tanasevitch, 1992) – Russia (Far East), Japan
• Improphantes breviscapus Tanasevitch, 2013 – Israel
• Improphantes complicatus (Emerton, 1882) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
• Improphantes contus Tanasevitch & Piterkina, 2007 – Kazakhstan
• Improphantes cypriot Tanasevitch, 2011 – Cyprus
• Improphantes decolor (Westring, 1861) – Europe, North Africa
• Improphantes djazairi (Bosmans, 1985) – Algeria
• Improphantes falcatus (Bosmans, 1979) – Kenya
• Improphantes flexilis (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East)
• Improphantes furcabilis (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Improphantes geniculatus (Kulczyński, 1898) – Germany to Russia (West Siberia)
• Improphantes holmi (Kronestedt, 1975) – Sweden, Finland, Russia (Urals)
• Improphantes huberti (Wunderlich, 1980) – France (Corsica)
• Improphantes improbulus (Simon, 1929) (type) – Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia (Russia, Kazakhstan), China
• Improphantes mauensis (Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya
• Improphantes multidentatus (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Improphantes nitidus (Thorell, 1875) – Europe
• Improphantes pamiricus (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Tajikistan
• Improphantes potanini (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Kyrgyzstan
• Improphantes turok Tanasevitch, 2011 – Turkey

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Improphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
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.