Frontinella

Frontinella

Male bowl and doily spider (F. communis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Frontinella Pickard-Cambridge^[1]
Species
10, see text

Frontinella is a genus of Mexican spiders in the Linyphiidae family.^[2] It was first described in 1902 by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge. As of 2017, it contains 10 species.^[1]

Species

Frontinella comprises the following species:^[1]

Frontinella bella Bryant, 1948 - Hispaniola
Frontinella communis (Hentz, 1850) - North America, Central America
Frontinella huachuca Gertsch & Davis, 1946 - USA, Mexico
Frontinella huachuca benevola Gertsch & Davis, 1946 - Mexico
Frontinella hubeiensis Li & Song, 1993 - China
Frontinella laeta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) - Mexico
Frontinella omega Kraus, 1955 - El Salvador
Frontinella potosia Gertsch & Davis, 1946 - Mexico
Frontinella tibialis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902- Mexico
Frontinella zhui Li & Song, 1993 - China

References

1 2 3 "Linyphiidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
↑ W.J. Gertsch; L. Irby Davis (March 13, 1946). "Report on a Collection of Spiders from Mexico" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. American Museum of Natural History. 1313. Retrieved April 30, 2014.

Extant Araneae families

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida

Suborder Mesothelae
Liphistiidae (segmented spiders)

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