title: Mallos (spider)
text: # Mallos (spider)
  
  Mallos is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1902. Among the genus, Mallos gregalis is known to be a social spider species, living in groups and signaling each other by vibrating their web.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of May 2019 it contains sixteen species:
  
  * Mallos blandus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 – USA
  * Mallos bryanti Gertsch, 1946 – USA, Mexico
  * Mallos chamberlini Bond & Opell, 1997 – Mexico
  * Mallos dugesi (Becker, 1886) – USA, Mexico
  * Mallos flavovittatus (Keyserling, 1881) – Venezuela, Peru
  * Mallos gertschi Bond & Opell, 1997 – Mexico
  * Mallos gregalis (Simon, 1909) – Mexico
  * Mallos hesperius (Chamberlin, 1916) – Mexico to Paraguay
  * Mallos kraussi Gertsch, 1946 – Mexico
  * Mallos macrolirus Bond & Opell, 1997 – Mexico
  * Mallos margaretae Gertsch, 1946 – Costa Rica, Panama
  * Mallos mians (Chamberlin, 1919) – USA, Mexico
  * Mallos nigrescens (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
  * Mallos niveus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 (type) – USA, Mexico
  * Mallos pallidus (Banks, 1904) – USA, Mexico
  * Mallos pearcei Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 – USA
  