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Yllenus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Arachnida

Family
  
Salticidae

Rank
  
Genus

Subphylum
  
Chelicerata

Infraorder
  
Araneomorphae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Spider

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Similar
  
Pseudicius, Pellenes, Sibianor, Dendryphantes, Leptorchestes

Yllenus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders), found from central Europe to China.

Y. arenarius is peculiar in building silken nests under the sand surface of sandy dunes it inhabits.

Species

Many of the species formerly placed in this genus were transferred to new genera Logunyllus and Marusyllus by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016.

As of March 2017, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:

References

Yllenus Wikipedia