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]

Mallos
Mallos pallidus
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Domain: Eukaryota
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

Species

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As of May 2019 it contains sixteen species:[1]

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.
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