Plesiophantes

Plesiophantes is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by S. Heimer in 1981.[2] As of May 2019 it contains only three species, found in Turkey, Georgia, and Russia: P. joosti, P. simplex, and P. tanasevitchi.[1]

Plesiophantes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Plesiophantes
Heimer, 1981[1]
Type species
P. joosti
Heimer, 1981
Species
  • P. joosti Heimer, 1981 – Russia, Georgia, Turkey
  • P. simplex Tanasevitch, 1987 – Georgia
  • P. tanasevitchi Wunderlich, 2011 – Russia

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Plesiophantes Heimer, 1981". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  2. Heimer, S. (1981). "Plesiophantes joosti gen. et sp. n. (Arachnida, Araneae, Linyphiidae)". Reichenbachia. 19: 197–201.


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