title: Caviphantes
text: # Caviphantes
  
  Caviphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by R. Oi in 1960.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of May 2019 it contains five species:
  
  * Caviphantes dobrogicus (Dumitrescu & Miller, 1962) – Romania to Central Asia
  * Caviphantes flagellatus (Zhu & Zhou, 1992) – China
  * Caviphantes pseudosaxetorum Wunderlich, 1979 – Lebanon to India, Nepal, China, Russia (Kurile Is.), Japan
  * Caviphantes samensis Oi, 1960 (type) – China, Japan
  * Caviphantes saxetorum (Hull, 1916) – USA, Europe, Russia (Urals, South Siberia)
  