Piniphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1996.
Piniphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1996.
==Species== it contains nine species: Piniphantes agnellus (Maurer & Thaler, 1988) – France, Italy Piniphantes cinereus (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan Piniphantes cirratus (Thaler, 1986) – France (Corsica) Piniphantes himalayensis (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal, Pakistan Piniphantes macer (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan Piniphantes pinicola (Simon, 1884) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Turkmenistan Piniphantes plumatus (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan Piniphantes uzbekistanicus (Tanasevitch, 1983) – Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan Piniphantes zonsteini (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).