Grammonota

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Grammonota

| image = Grammonota_gigas_(m).jpg

| image_caption = G. gigas, male

| authority = Emerton, 1882

| type_species = G. pictilis

| type_species_authority = (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 40, see text

| synonyms =

  • Itytis Strand, 1932{{cite journal| last1=Bishop| first1=S. C.| last2=Crosby| first2=C. R.| year=1933| title=Studies in American spiders: The genus Grammonota.| journal=Journal of the New York Entomological Society| volume=40| page=393}}

| synonyms_ref =

}}

Grammonota is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by James Henry Emerton in 1882.{{cite journal| last=Emerton| first=J. H.| year=1882| title=New England spiders of the family Theridiidae.| journal=Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences| pages=1–86| volume=6| author-link=James Henry Emerton| doi=10.5962/bhl.part.7410| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/7410}}

Species

{{as of|2019|05}} it contains forty species and one subspecies, found in Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, and the United States:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Grammonota Emerton, 1882| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-06-14| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1333| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

See also

References