Lepthyphantes

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Lepthyphantes

| image = Lepthyphantes_leprosus.jpg

| image_caption = Lepthyphantes leprosus

| authority = Menge, 1866

| type_species = L. minutus

| type_species_authority = (Blackwall, 1833)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 161, see text

}}

Lepthyphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Anton Menge in 1866.{{cite journal| last=Menge| first=A.| year=1866| title=Preussische Spinnen. Erste Abtheilung| journal=Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig| pages=1–152| volume=1| author-link=Anton_Menge}}

Species

{{as of|2021|05}} it contains 161 species and two subspecies, found in Albania, Algeria, Angola, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Comoros, Middle Africa, Cyprus, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Greece, Greenland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and the United States:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-06-15| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1397| doi=10.24436/2}}

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