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Genus Islandiana

Islandiana flaveola--Voucher - Islandiana flaveola - 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 Erigoninae (Dwarf Spiders)

Genus Islandiana

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Numbers

There are 14 species in the genus, all within BugGuide's range (North America north of Mexico).(1)

Remarks

Species list with ranges from American Arachnology website

I. cavealis KY

I. coconino AZ, CO

I. cristata YT

I. falsifica BC, NT, NU, YT, AK

I. flaveola widespread

I. flavoides IL, IN, NY

I. holmi BC, NF, PQ, CO, MT, NY, WY

I. lasalana UT

I. lewisi IN

I. longisetosa AB, MB, NB, NS, ON, PQ; AK, CT, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, MO, OH, PA

I. mimbres NM

I. muma AL, VA

I. princeps Canada and Alaska south to Utah in the mountainous west and New England in the east

I. speophila MO, OH, WV

I. unicornis TX

Works Cited

1.	The World Spider Catalog by Norman I. Platnick

Contributed by Chad Heins on 12 March, 2014 - 8:18pm
Additional contributions by Mandy Howe
Last updated 13 August, 2025 - 9:03am

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