Mallos (spider)

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
Mallos pallidus
Scientific classification
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
Species
16, see text

Species

As 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