Pityohyphantes

Pityohyphantes, commonly known as hammock spiders, is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1929.^[2] The name comes from the Ancient Greek Πίτυς (pitys), meaning "pine", and hyphantes, meaning "weaver".^[3]

Hammock spiders
P. phrygianus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Pityohyphantes Simon, 1929[1]
Type species
P. phrygianus (C. L. Koch, 1836)
Species
16, see text

Sexually dimorphic male and female

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains sixteen species and two subspecies, found in Europe and North America:^[1]

• Pityohyphantes alticeps Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – US, Canada^[3]
• Pityohyphantes brachygynus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – US, Canada^[3]
• Pityohyphantes costatus (Hentz, 1850) – US, Canada^[3]
  • Pityohyphantes c. annulipes (Banks, 1892) – North America
• Pityohyphantes cristatus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – US, Canada^[3]
  • Pityohyphantes c. coloradensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – US
• Pityohyphantes hesperus (Chamberlin, 1920) – US
• Pityohyphantes kamela Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – US, Canada^[3]
• Pityohyphantes limitaneus (Emerton, 1915) – US, Canada
• Pityohyphantes lomondensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 – US
• Pityohyphantes minidoka Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – US, Canada^[3]
• Pityohyphantes navajo Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – US
• Pityohyphantes palilis (L. Koch, 1870) – Central, Eastern Europe
• Pityohyphantes pallidus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – US
• Pityohyphantes phrygianus (C. L. Koch, 1836) (type) – Europe, Russia to Kazakhstan, Japan
• Pityohyphantes rubrofasciatus (Keyserling, 1886) – US, Canada
• Pityohyphantes subarcticus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – Canada, US (Alaska)
• Pityohyphantes tacoma Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – US

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)