Mallos (spider)

Mallos is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1902.[2] Among the genus, Mallos gregalis is known to be a social spider species, living in groups and signaling each other by vibrating their web.[3]

Mallos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Dictynidae
Genus: Mallos
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902[1]
Type species
M. niveus
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902
Species

16, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains sixteen species:[1]

  • Mallos blandus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 – USA
  • Mallos bryanti Gertsch, 1946 – USA, Mexico
  • Mallos chamberlini Bond & Opell, 1997 – Mexico
  • Mallos dugesi (Becker, 1886) – USA, Mexico
  • Mallos flavovittatus (Keyserling, 1881) – Venezuela, Peru
  • Mallos gertschi Bond & Opell, 1997 – Mexico
  • Mallos gregalis (Simon, 1909) – Mexico
  • Mallos hesperius (Chamberlin, 1916) – Mexico to Paraguay
  • Mallos kraussi Gertsch, 1946 – Mexico
  • Mallos macrolirus Bond & Opell, 1997 – Mexico
  • Mallos margaretae Gertsch, 1946 – Costa Rica, Panama
  • Mallos mians (Chamberlin, 1919) – USA, Mexico
  • Mallos nigrescens (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
  • Mallos niveus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 (type) – USA, Mexico
  • Mallos pallidus (Banks, 1904) – USA, Mexico
  • Mallos pearcei Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 – USA

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Mallos O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1902), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology
  3. Bond, J. E.; Opell, B. D. (1997). "Systematics of the spider genera Mallos and Mexitlia (Araneae, Dictynidae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 119 (4): 389–445. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb00141.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05.


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