Oreophantes

Oreophantes is a monotypic genus of North American dwarf spiders containing the single species, Oreophantes recurvatus. It was first described by K. Y. Eskov in 1984,[2] and has only been found in the United States and Canada.[1]

Oreophantes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Oreophantes
Eskov, 1984[1]
Species:
O. recurvatus
Binomial name
Oreophantes recurvatus
(Emerton, 1913)

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Oreophantes Eskov, 1984". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
  2. Eskov, K. Y. (1984). "Taxonomy of spiders of the genus Oreonetides (Aranei, Linyphiidae)". Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal. 63: 662–670.


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