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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders (Linyphiidae) » Sheetweb Spiders (Linyphiinae) » Tapinopa

Genus Tapinopa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Tapinopa bilineata - female Tapinopa bilineata - male Tapinopa bilineata - male Tapinopa bilineata - male Tapinopa bilineata - male Spider with long banded legs - Tapinopa bilineata Tapinopa - Tapinopa bilineata - female Spider ID? Striking pattern and color - Tapinopa bilineata - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Linyphiidae (Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders)
Subfamily Linyphiinae (Sheetweb Spiders)
Genus Tapinopa
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tanasevitch (1) places this genus in the subfamily Micronetinae.
Numbers
2 species in our range(2)
T. bilineata
T. hentzi
Size
T. bilineata
T. hentzi - ~3.2 mm(3)
Range
T. bilineata - New England and adjacent Canada south to Georgia and west to Wisconsin.(4)
T. hentzi - Alabama(3)
Print References
The New American Linyphiid Spiders
By Willis J. Gertsch(3)

How to Know the Spiders
By B. J. Kaston(4)
Internet References
World Spider Catalog (2014). World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 15.5, accessed on 12/7/2014.(2)
Works Cited
1.Linyphiid Spiders of the World
2.World Spider Catalog
3.The New American Linyphiid Spiders
Willis J. Gertsch. 1951. American Museum of Natural History 1514:1-11.
4.How to Know the Spiders
B. J. Kaston. 1978. WCB/McGraw-Hill.
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 16 October, 2010 - 12:40pm
Additional contributions by ceiseman, Laura P.
Last updated 7 December, 2014 - 11:45am

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