Megalepthyphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1994.[2]
| Megalepthyphantes | |
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| M. nebulosus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Megalepthyphantes Wunderlich, 1994[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. nebulosus (Sundevall, 1830)
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| Species | |
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17, see text | |
Species
editAs of May 2019[update] it contains seventeen species:[1]
- Megalepthyphantes auresensis Bosmans, 2006 – Algeria
- Megalepthyphantes bkheitae (Bosmans & Bouragba, 1992) – Algeria
- Megalepthyphantes brignolii Tanasevitch, 2014 – Morocco
- Megalepthyphantes camelus (Tanasevitch, 1990) – Iran, Azerbaijan
- Megalepthyphantes collinus (L. Koch, 1872) – Europe
- Megalepthyphantes globularis Tanasevitch, 2011 – Turkey
- Megalepthyphantes hellinckxorum Bosmans, 2006 – Algeria
- Megalepthyphantes kandahar Tanasevitch, 2009 – Afghanistan
- Megalepthyphantes kronebergi (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Iran, Kazakhstan to China
- Megalepthyphantes kuhitangensis (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Israel, Central Asia, China
- Megalepthyphantes lydiae Wunderlich, 1994 – Greece
- Megalepthyphantes minotaur Tanasevitch & Wunderlich, 2015 – Greece (Crete)
- Megalepthyphantes nebulosoides (Wunderlich, 1977) – Iran, Central Asia
- Megalepthyphantes nebulosus (Sundevall, 1830) (type) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (European to Far East)
- Megalepthyphantes pseudocollinus Saaristo, 1997 – Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Caucasus, Turkey, Iran
- Megalepthyphantes turkestanicus (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, China
- Megalepthyphantes turkeyensis Tanasevitch, Kunt & Seyyar, 2005 – Cyprus, Turkey
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Megalepthyphantes Wunderlich, 1994". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ^ Wunderlich, J. (1994). "Beschreibung der neuen Spinnen-Gattung Megalepthyphantes aus der Familie der Baldachinspinnen und einer bisher unbekannten Art aus Griechenland (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae)". Entomologische Zeitschrift, Frankfurt a.M. 104: 168–171.