sheet-web weaver

Bathyphantes est un genre d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Linyphiidae. Distribution Les espèces de ce genre se rencontrent en Amérique, en Asie, en Europe, en Afrique et en Océanie. Liste des espèces Selon World Spider Catalog (version 26, 14/04/2025) : Bathyphantes alameda Ivie, 1969 Bathyphantes alascensis (Banks, 1900) Bathyphantes alboventris (Banks, 1892) Bathyphantes ansulis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 Bathyphantes approximatus (O.

Linyphiidae, spiders commonly known as sheet weavers (from the shape of their webs), or money spiders (in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Portugal) is a family of very small spiders comprising around 5,000 described species in around 650 genera worldwide. This makes Linyphiidae the second largest family of spiders after the Salticidae. The family is poorly understood due to their small body size and wide distribution; new genera and species are still being discovered throughout the world.

Bathyphantes approximatus es una especie de araña del género Bathyphantes, familia Linyphiidae. Fue descrita científicamente por O. Pickard-Cambridge en 1871.