title: Pityohyphantes
text: # Pityohyphantes
  
  Pityohyphantes, commonly known as hammock spiders, is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1929. The name comes from the Ancient Greek Πίτυς (pitys), meaning "pine", and hyphantes, meaning "weaver".
  
  ## Species
  
  As of May 2019 it contains sixteen species and two subspecies, found in Europe and Eastern Europe:
  
  * Pityohyphantes alticeps Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA, Canada
  * Pityohyphantes brachygynus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA, Canada
  * Pityohyphantes costatus (Hentz, 1850) – USA, Canada
     * Pityohyphantes c. annulipes (Banks, 1892) – North America
  * Pityohyphantes cristatus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA, Canada
     * Pityohyphantes c. coloradensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA
  * Pityohyphantes hesperus (Chamberlin, 1920) – USA
  * Pityohyphantes kamela Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA, Canada
  * Pityohyphantes limitaneus (Emerton, 1915) – USA, Canada
  * Pityohyphantes lomondensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 – USA
  * Pityohyphantes minidoka Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA, Canada
  * Pityohyphantes navajo Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA
  * Pityohyphantes palilis (L. Koch, 1870) – Central, Eastern Europe
  * Pityohyphantes pallidus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA
  * Pityohyphantes phrygianus (C. L. Koch, 1836) (type) – Europe, Russia to Kazakhstan, Japan
  * Pityohyphantes rubrofasciatus (Keyserling, 1886) – USA, Canada
  * Pityohyphantes subarcticus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – Canada, USA (Alaska)
  * Pityohyphantes tacoma Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA
  