Jalapyphantes

Jalapyphantes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Jalapyphantes Gertsch & Davis, 1946[1]
Type species
J. cuernavaca Gertsch & Davis, 1946
Species
4, see text

Jalapyphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker & L. I. Davis in 1946.[2]

Species

The genus includes the following species, found in Ecuador and Mexico:[1]

• Jalapyphantes cuernavaca Gertsch & Davis, 1946 (type) – Mexico
• Jalapyphantes minoratus Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico
• Jalapyphantes obscurus Millidge, 1991 – Ecuador
• Jalapyphantes puebla Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico
• Jalapyphantes tricolor Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico[3]

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Jalapyphantes Gertsch & Davis, 1946". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
2. Gertsch, W. J.; Davis, L. I. (1946). "Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico. V". American Museum Novitates (1313): 1–11.
3. Thiago da Silva Moreira; Gustavo Hormiga (2021). "Systematics of the Neotropical spider genera Jalapyphantes and Selenyphantes and the circumscription of the Pocobletus clade (Araneae: Linyphiidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 192 (3): 896–957. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa124.