''Frontinella'' is a
genus
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of
dwarf spiders that was first described by
Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (3 November 1860 – 9 February 1905) was an English arachnologist. He is sometimes confused with his uncle, Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828–1917), who was also an arachnologist and from whom F. O. ...
in 1902.
Species
it contains nine species and one subspecies, found in
China
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,
El Salvador
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,
Mexico
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, and the
United States
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:
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Frontinella bella''
Bryant, 1948 – Hispaniola
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Frontinella huachuca''
Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – USA, Mexico
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Frontinella h. benevola''
Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico, Arizona
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Frontinella hubeiensis''
Li & Song, 1993 – China
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Frontinella laeta''
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) (
type
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) – Mexico
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Frontinella omega''
Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
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Frontinella potosia''
Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico
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Frontinella pyramitela''
(Walckenaer
Baron Charles Athanase Walckenaer (25 December 1771 – 28 April 1852) was a French civil servant, writer, man of letters, and scientist. He was a polymath and wrote extensively on geography, natural history, and literature. Major contributio ...
, 1841) – North, Central America
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Frontinella tibialis''
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – Mexico
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Frontinella zhui''
Li & Song, 1993 – China
See also
*
List of Linyphiidae species (A–H)
This page lists all described species of the spider family Linyphiidae as of August 28, 2020, from A to H, of World Spider Catalog version 21.5
''Abacoproeces''
'' Abacoproeces'' Simon, 1884
* '' Abacoproeces molestus'' Thaler, 1973 — Austria
...
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Neriene''
References
Araneomorphae genera
Linyphiidae
Spiders of China
Spiders of North America
Taxa named by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
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