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 Eastern Europe: Pityohyphantes alticeps Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA, Canada Pityohyphantes brachygynus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA, Canada Pityohyphantes costatus (Hentz, 1850) – USA, Canada Pityohyphantes c. annulipes (Banks, 1892) – North America Pityohyphantes cristatus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA, Canada Pityohyphantes c. coloradensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA Pityohyphantes hesperus (Chamberlin, 1920) – USA Pityohyphantes kamela Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA, Canada Pityohyphantes limitaneus (Emerton, 1915) – USA, Canada Pityohyphantes lomondensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 – USA Pityohyphantes minidoka Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA, Canada Pityohyphantes navajo Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA Pityohyphantes palilis (L. Koch, 1870) – Central, Eastern Europe Pityohyphantes pallidus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA Pityohyphantes phrygianus (C. L. Koch, 1836) (type) – Europe, Russia to Kazakhstan, Japan Pityohyphantes rubrofasciatus (Keyserling, 1886) – USA, Canada Pityohyphantes subarcticus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – Canada, USA (Alaska) Pityohyphantes tacoma Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA
See also
List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)