Mallos (spider)

Genus of spiders

Mallos

Mallos pallidus
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

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]

## Species

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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

## References

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1. ^ 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.
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.

## External links

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* Mallos at BugGuide
* "Mallos". The Encyclopedia of Life.

Taxon identifiers

Mallos|

* Wikidata: Q1996317
* Wikispecies: Mallos
* ADW: Mallos
* BioLib: 466651
* BOLD: 290996
* BugGuide: 181882
* CoL: 5KN2
* EoL: 113280
* GBIF: 2144703
* iNaturalist: 172550
* IRMNG: 1052790
* ITIS: 872433
* NCBI: 700665
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01982

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