Yllenus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1868.[2] Until 2019,[3] it was considered a senior synonym of Pseudomogrus, and many of the species formerly placed here were transferred to new genera Logunyllus and Marusyllus by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016.[4]
| Yllenus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Yllenus Simon, 1868[1] |
| Type species | |
| Y. arenarius Simon, 1868
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| Species | |
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18, see text | |
Y. arenarius is peculiar in building silken nests under the sand surface of sandy dunes it inhabits.[5]
Species
editAs of September 2019[update] it contains eighteen species, found from central Europe to China:[1]
- Yllenus arenarius Simon, 1868 (type) – Central, Eastern Europe
- Yllenus baltistanus Caporiacco, 1935 – India
- Yllenus charynensis Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Kazakhstan
- Yllenus desertus Wesolowska, 1991 – Mongolia
- Yllenus dunini Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan
- Yllenus erzinensis Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Russia, Mongolia
- Yllenus flavociliatus Simon, 1895 – Russia, Central Asia, Mongolia, China
- Yllenus gajdosi Logunov & Marusik, 2000 – Mongolia
- Yllenus horvathi Chyzer, 1891 – Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine
- Yllenus karakumensis Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Turkmenistan
- Yllenus kononenkoi Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Kyrgyzstan
- Yllenus kulczynskii Punda, 1975 – Mongolia
- Yllenus lyachovi Logunov & Marusik, 2000 – Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan
- Yllenus marusiki Logunov, 1993 – Mongolia
- Yllenus rotundiorificus Logunov & Marusik, 2000 – Mongolia
- Yllenus turkestanicus Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Central Asia
- Yllenus uiguricus Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Kazakhstan
- Yllenus zyuzini Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Russia (Caucasus), Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Yllenus Simon, 1868". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
- ^ Simon, E. (1868). "Monographie des espèces européennes de la famille des attides (Attidae Sundewall. - Saltigradae Latreille)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 8 (4): 529–726.
- ^ Marusik, Y. M.; Blick, T. (2019). "Further new synonyms of jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 57 (1): 89. doi:10.30963/aramit5717.
- ^ Prószyński, J. (1968). "Systematic revision of the genus Yllenus Simon, 1868 (Araneida, Salticidae)". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa. 26: 415.
- ^ Bartos, Maciej (2002). "The sub-sand nests of Yllenus arenarius (Araneae, Salticidae): Structure, function and construction behavior". The Journal of Arachnology. 30 (2): 275–280. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0275:TSSNOY]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 3706271. S2CID 86508594.
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