Pityohyphantes, commonly known as hammock spiders, is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1929. The name comes from the Ancient Greek (pitys), meaning "pine", and hyphantes, meaning "weaver".
Species
it contains sixteen species and two subspecies, found in Europe and North America:
- Pityohyphantes alticeps <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943</small> â US, Canada
- Pityohyphantes brachygynus <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942</small> â US, Canada
- Pityohyphantes costatus <small>(Hentz, 1850)</small> â US, Canada
- Pityohyphantes c. annulipes <small>(Banks, 1892)</small> â North America
- Pityohyphantes cristatus <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942</small> â US, Canada
- Pityohyphantes c. coloradensis <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942</small> â US
- Pityohyphantes hesperus <small>(Chamberlin, 1920)</small> â US
- Pityohyphantes kamela <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943</small> â US, Canada
- Pityohyphantes limitaneus <small>(Emerton, 1915)</small> â US, Canada
- Pityohyphantes lomondensis <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941</small> â US
- Pityohyphantes minidoka <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943</small> â US, Canada
- Pityohyphantes navajo <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942</small> â US
- Pityohyphantes palilis <small>(L. Koch, 1870)</small> â Central, Eastern Europe
- Pityohyphantes pallidus <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942</small> â US
- Pityohyphantes phrygianus <small>(C. L. Koch, 1836)</small> (type) â Europe, Russia to Kazakhstan, Japan
- Pityohyphantes rubrofasciatus <small>(Keyserling, 1886)</small> â US, Canada
- Pityohyphantes subarcticus <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943</small> â Canada, US (Alaska)
- Pityohyphantes tacoma <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942</small> â US
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