Linyphia

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range| Palaeogene| Present}}

| taxon = Linyphia

| image = Linyphiidae_-_Linyphia_sp._(male)-001.jpg

| image_caption = Linyphia species

| authority = Latreille, 1804

| type_species = Araneus triangularis

| type_species_authority = Clerck, 1757

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 78, see text

}}

Linyphia is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1804.{{cite journal| last=Latreille| first=P. A.| year=1804| title=Tableau methodique des Insectes| journal=Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris| pages=129–295| volume=24| author-link=Pierre_André_Latreille}} The name is Greek, and means "thread-weaver" or "linen maker".{{cite web| title=Genus Linyphia| publisher=BugGuide| access-date=2019-06-15| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/456576}}

Species

{{as of|2021|05}} it contains seventy-eight species, found in Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Panama, Peru, Russia, Samoa, Sweden, Switzerland, São Tomé and Príncipe, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Linyphia Latreille, 1804| 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/1406| doi=10.24436/2}}

L. adstricta (Keyserling, 1886) – Utah, Baja California{{cite book| last1=Paquin| first1=Pierre| last2=Buckle| first2=Donald J.| year=2001| title=Contributions à la connaissance des Araignées (Araneae) d'Amérique du Nord. Fabreries, Supplément 10| publisher=Association des entomologistes amateurs du Québec inc. (AEAQ)}}{{cite journal| last=Petrunkevitch| first=Alexander| year=1911| title=A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, etc.| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| volume=29| pages=1–791| author-link=Alexander_Petrunkevitch}}
L. albipunctata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – China (Yarkand)
L. alpicola van Helsdingen, 1969 – Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria)
L. armata (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
L. bicuspis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico
L. bifasciata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Costa Rica
L. bisignata (Banks, 1909) – Costa Rica
L. calcarifera (Keyserling, 1886) – Panama, Colombia
L. catalina Gertsch, 1951 – Arizona (Chiricahua Mountain Area){{cite journal| last1=Jung| first1=Albert| last2=Roth| first2=Vincent| year=1974| title=Spiders of the Chiricahua Mountain area, Cochise Co. , Arizona| journal=Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science| volume=9| issue=1| pages=29–34| doi=10.2307/40021934| jstor=40021934}}
L. chiapasia Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico
L. chiridota (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar, Thailand
L. clara (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
L. confinis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – Guatemala
L. consanguinea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – China (Yarkand)
L. cylindrata (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
L. decorata (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
L. duplicata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico, Guatemala
L. eiseni Banks, 1898 – Mexico
L. emertoni Thorell, 1875 – Labrador, Canada{{cite journal| last=Paquin| display-authors=etal| year=2010| title=Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Canada and Alaska| journal=Zootaxa| volume=2461| pages=1–170| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2461.1.1}}
L. falculifera (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Costa Rica
L. ferentaria (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru
L. horaea (Keyserling, 1886) – Colombia
L. hortensis Sundevall, 1830 – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Central Asia
L. hospita (Keyserling, 1886) – Colombia
L. hui Hu, 2001 – China
L. karschi Roewer, 1942 – São Tomé and Príncipe
L. lambda (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Guatemala
L. lehmanni Simon, 1903 – Argentina
L. leucosternon White, 1841 – Brazil
L. limatula Simon, 1904 – Chile
L. limbata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico, Guatemala
L. lineola Pavesi, 1883 – Ethiopia
L. linguatula (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Guatemala
L. linzhiensis Hu, 2001 – China
L. longiceps (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
L. longispina (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico
L. ludibunda (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru
L. lurida (Keyserling, 1886) – Colombia
L. maculosa (Banks, 1909) – Costa Rica
L. maura Thorell, 1875 – Western Mediterranean
L. melanoprocta Mello-Leitão, 1944 – Argentina
L. menyuanensis Hu, 2001 – China
L. mimonti Simon, 1885 – Italy, Albania, Greece (incl. Crete), Lebanon, Israel
L. monticolens Roewer, 1942 – Peru
L. neophita Hentz, 1850 – North Carolina{{cite journal| title=Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States| first=Nicholas| last=Hentz| year=1850| journal=Boston Journal of Natural History| volume=6| pages=18–35, 271–295}}
L. nepalensis Wunderlich, 1983 – Nepal
L. nigrita (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico, Guatemala
L. nitens Urquhart, 1893 – Australia (Tasmania)
L. obesa Thorell, 1875 – Sweden
L. obscurella Roewer, 1942 – Brazil
L. octopunctata (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) – Panama
L. oligochronia (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru
L. orophila Thorell, 1877 – Colorado (Gray's Peak){{cite journal| title=Descriptions of the Araneae collected in Colorado in 1875, by A. S. Packard Jr., M. D.| first=Tamerlan| last=Thorell| year=1877| journal=Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey| volume=3| pages=477–529}}
L. peruana (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru
L. petrunkevitchi Roewer, 1942 – Guatemala
L. phaeochorda Rainbow, 1920 – Australia (Norfolk Is.)
L. phyllophora Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
L. polita Blackwall, 1870 – Italy (Sicily)
L. postica (Banks, 1909) – Costa Rica
L. rita Gertsch, 1951 – Arizona (Chiricahua Mountain Area)
L. rubella Keyserling, 1886 – Peru
L. rubriceps (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
L. rustica (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico
L. sagana Dönitz & Strand, 1906 – Japan
L. sikkimensis Tikader, 1970 – India
L. simplicata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Guatemala
L. subluteae Urquhart, 1893 – Australia (Tasmania)
L. tauphora Chamberlin, 1928 – Utah (Zion National Park) & Washington (San Juan County){{cite journal| title=Notes on spiders from southeastern Utah| first1=Ralph| last1=Chamberlin| first2=Willis| last2=Gertsch| year=1928| journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington| volume=41| pages=175–188}}
L. tenuipalpis Simon, 1884 – Algeria, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
L. textrix Walckenaer, 1841 – USA (Georgia)
L. triangularis (Clerck, 1757) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Kazakhstan, China. Introduced to USA
L. triangularoides Schenkel, 1936 – China, USA (Introduced){{cite journal| title=Linyphia triangularis, a Palearctic spider (Araneae, Linyphiidae) new to North America| first1=Daniel T.| last1=Jennings| first2=Kefyn M.| last2=Catley| first3=Frank| last3=Graham| year=2002| journal=Journal of Arachnology| volume=30| issue=3| pages=455–460| doi=10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0455:LTAPSA]2.0.CO;2| url=https://zenodo.org/record/1236351}}
L. trifalcata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Guatemala
L. tuasivia Marples, 1955 – Samoa, Cook Is. (Aitutaki)
L. tubernaculofaciens Hingston, 1932 – Guyana
L. virgata (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru
L. xilitla Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico
L. yangmingensis Yin, 2012 – China

References

Category:Araneomorphae genera

Category:Cosmopolitan spiders

Category:Linyphiidae

Category:Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille

Linyphia

Species

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References