Mallos is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1902.[2] Among the genus, Mallos gregalis is known to be a social spider species, living in groups and signaling each other by vibrating their web.[3]
| Mallos | |
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| Mallos pallidus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Dictynidae |
| Genus: | Mallos O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. niveus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902
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| Species | |
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16, see text | |
Species
editAs of May 2019[update] it contains sixteen species:[1]
- Mallos blandus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 – USA
- Mallos bryanti Gertsch, 1946 – USA, Mexico
- Mallos chamberlini Bond & Opell, 1997 – Mexico
- Mallos dugesi (Becker, 1886) – USA, Mexico
- Mallos flavovittatus (Keyserling, 1881) – Venezuela, Peru
- Mallos gertschi Bond & Opell, 1997 – Mexico
- Mallos gregalis (Simon, 1909) – Mexico
- Mallos hesperius (Chamberlin, 1916) – Mexico to Paraguay
- Mallos kraussi Gertsch, 1946 – Mexico
- Mallos macrolirus Bond & Opell, 1997 – Mexico
- Mallos margaretae Gertsch, 1946 – Costa Rica, Panama
- Mallos mians (Chamberlin, 1919) – USA, Mexico
- Mallos nigrescens (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
- Mallos niveus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 (type) – USA, Mexico
- Mallos pallidus (Banks, 1904) – USA, Mexico
- Mallos pearcei Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 – USA
References
edit- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Mallos O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1902), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology
- ^ Bond, J. E.; Opell, B. D. (1997). "Systematics of the spider genera Mallos and Mexitlia (Araneae, Dictynidae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 119 (4): 389–445. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb00141.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05.
External links
edit- Mallos at BugGuide
- "Mallos". The Encyclopedia of Life.