Caviphantes

Caviphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by R. Oi in 1960.^[4]

Caviphantes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Caviphantes Oi, 1960[1]
Type species
C. samensis Oi, 1960
Species
5, see text
Synonyms[1]
Lessertiella Dumitrescu & Miller, 1962[2] Maxillodens Zhu & Zhou, 1992[3]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains five species:^[1]

• Caviphantes dobrogicus (Dumitrescu & Miller, 1962) – Romania to Central Asia
• Caviphantes flagellatus (Zhu & Zhou, 1992) – China
• Caviphantes pseudosaxetorum Wunderlich, 1979 – Lebanon to India, Nepal, China, Russia (Kurile Is.), Japan
• Caviphantes samensis Oi, 1960 (type) – China, Japan
• Caviphantes saxetorum (Hull, 1916) – USA, Europe, Russia (Urals, South Siberia)

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species