Selenyphantes Explained

Selenyphantes is a genus of sheet weavers. It was first described by Willis J. Gertsch & L. I. Davis in 1946.

Species

it contains six species, found in Costa Rica, Mexico and Guatemala.

• Selenyphantes costaricensis Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Costa Rica
• Selenyphantes gaimani Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico
• Selenyphantes iztactepetl Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico
• Selenyphantes longispinosus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) (type) – Mexico
• Selenyphantes orizabae Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico, Guatemala
• Selenyphantes volcanicus Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico

References

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Notes and References

1. Gen. Selenyphantes Gertsch & Davis, 1946. World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. 2021-08-04. 2021. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
2. Thiago da Silva Moreira. Gustavo Hormiga. 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 . 2021 . 896–957 . 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa124. subscription.
3. Gertsch. W. J.. Davis. L. I.. 1946. Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico. V. American Museum Novitates. 1–11. 1313. Willis J. Gertsch.
4. Book: Platnick, N. I. . 1993 . 349 . Advances in spider taxonomy 1988-1991, with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980 . registration . The New York Entomological Society . New York. 978-0-913424-10-0 .