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Improphantes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Improphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996
Type species
I. improbulus (Simon, 1929)
Species
20, see text

Improphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1996.

Species

As of May 2019 it contains twenty species, found in Algeria, China, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, and Turkey:

• Improphantes biconicus (Tanasevitch, 1992) – Russia (Far East), Japan
• Improphantes breviscapus Tanasevitch, 2013 – Israel
• Improphantes complicatus (Emerton, 1882) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
• Improphantes contus Tanasevitch & Piterkina, 2007 – Kazakhstan
• Improphantes cypriot Tanasevitch, 2011 – Cyprus
• Improphantes decolor (Westring, 1861) – Europe, North Africa
• Improphantes djazairi (Bosmans, 1985) – Algeria
• Improphantes falcatus (Bosmans, 1979) – Kenya
• Improphantes flexilis (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East)
• Improphantes furcabilis (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Improphantes geniculatus (Kulczyński, 1898) – Germany to Russia (West Siberia)
• Improphantes holmi (Kronestedt, 1975) – Sweden, Finland, Russia (Urals)
• Improphantes huberti (Wunderlich, 1980) – France (Corsica)
• Improphantes improbulus (Simon, 1929) (type) – Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia (Russia, Kazakhstan), China
• Improphantes mauensis (Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya
• Improphantes multidentatus (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Improphantes nitidus (Thorell, 1875) – Europe
• Improphantes pamiricus (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Tajikistan
• Improphantes potanini (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Kyrgyzstan
• Improphantes turok Tanasevitch, 2011 – Turkey

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. ^ "Gen. Improphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
2. Saaristo, M. I.; Tanasevitch, A. V. (1996). "Redelimitation of the subfamily Micronetinae Hull, 1920 and the genus Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 with descriptions of some new genera (Aranei, Linyphiidae)". Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck. 83: 163–186.

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