Frontinella
Genus of spiders
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Frontinella is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1902.[2]
| Frontinella | |
|---|---|
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| Male bowl and doily spider(F. communis) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Frontinella F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902[1] |
| Type species | |
| F. laeta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) | |
| Species | |
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9, see text | |
Species
As of May 2019[update] it contains nine species and one subspecies, found in China, El Salvador, Mexico, and the United States:[1]
- Frontinella bella Bryant, 1948 – Hispaniola
- Frontinella huachuca Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – USA, Mexico
- Frontinella h. benevola Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico, Arizona[3]
- Frontinella hubeiensis Li & Song, 1993 – China
- Frontinella laeta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) (type) – Mexico
- Frontinella omega Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
- Frontinella potosia Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico
- Frontinella pyramitela (Walckenaer, 1841) – North, Central America
- Frontinella tibialis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – Mexico
- Frontinella zhui Li & Song, 1993 – China