Pachygnatha

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Pachygnatha

| image = Pachygnatha_clercki_(18754491359).jpg

| image_caption = Pachygnatha clercki

| authority = Sundevall, 1823

| type_species = P. clercki

| type_species_authority = Sundevall, 1823

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 42, see text

}}

Pachygnatha is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1823.{{cite book| last=Sundevall| first=C. J.| year=1823| title=Specimen academicum genera araneidum Sueciae exhibens| publisher=Lundae| pages=1–22| author-link=Carl_Jakob_Sundevall}}

Species

{{as of|2021|03}} it contains forty-two species and two subspecies:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Pachygnatha Sundevall, 1823| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-12-01| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3303| doi=10.24436/2}}

In synonymy:

  • P. gaoi Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 = Pachygnatha amurensis Strand, 1907
  • P. kuratai Levi, 1951 = Pachygnatha dorothea McCook, 1894
  • P. nipponica (Kishida, 1936) = Pachygnatha quadrimaculata (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
  • P. sewardi Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947 = Pachygnatha clercki Sundevall, 1823
  • P. yiliensis (Hu & Wu, 1985) = Pachygnatha degeeri Sundevall, 1830

See also

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