Yllenus

Yllenus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Section: Dionycha
Superfamily: Salticoidea
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Sitticinae
Genus: Yllenus
Simon, 1868
Type species
Yllenus arenarius
Menge, 1868
Species

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Diversity
67 species

Yllenus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

Y. arenarius is peculiar in building silken nests under the sand surface of sandy dunes it inhabits.

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