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Genus of spiders
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]
As of May 2019
[update] 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
^
a
b 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 .
^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1902), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology
^ 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.