Caviphantes

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Linyphiidae
Subfamilia: Erigoninae
Genus: Caviphantes
Species: C. catomidius – C. dobrogicus – C. flagellatus – C. pseudosaxetorum – C. samensis – C. saxetorum
Name

Caviphantes Oi, 1960

Type species: Caviphantes samensis Ryoji Oi, 1960, by monotypy
Synonyms

Lessertiella Dumitrescu & Miller, 1962, type L. dobrogica
Dumitrescu & Miller, 1962, by monotypy
Maxillodens Zhu & Zhou, 1992, type M. flagellatus
Zhu & Zhou, 1992, by monotypy

References
Primary references

Oi, R. 1960: Linyphiid spiders of Japan. Journal of the Institute of Polytechnics Osaka City University 11(D): 137-244. Reference page.
Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

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

As of May 2019 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

References

"Gen. Caviphantes Oi, 1960". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
Wunderlich, J. (1979). "Linyphiidae aus Nepal, III. Die Gattungen Caviphantes Oi 1960 und Lessertiella Dumitrescu & Miller 1962 (Arachnida: Araneae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 60: 85.
Eskov, K. Y.; Marusik, Y. M. (1994). "New data on the taxonomy and faunistics of North Asian linyphiid spiders (Aranei Linyphiidae)". Arthropoda Selecta. 2 (4): 67.
Oi, R. (1960). "Linyphiid spiders of Japan". Journal of the Institute of Polytechnics Osaka City University. 11: 137–244.