Ceratinella

Ceratinella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Subfamily:	Erigoninae
Genus:	Ceratinella Emerton, 1882 [1]
Type species
C. brevis (Wider, 1834)
Species
26, see text

Ceratinella is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by James Henry Emerton in 1882. ^[2] They are very similar to both Ceraticelus and Idionella , and the taxonomy of these spiders may change.

Species

As of May 2019 ^[update] it contains twenty-six species and one subspecies: ^[1]

• Ceratinella acerea Chamberlin & Ivie, 1933 – USA
• Ceratinella alaskae Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947 – Russia (Middle Siberia, Far East), Canada, USA
• Ceratinella apollonii Caporiacco, 1938 – Italy
• Ceratinella brevipes (Westring, 1851) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Japan
• Ceratinella brevis (Wider, 1834) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan
• Ceratinella brunnea Emerton, 1882 – USA, Canada
• Ceratinella buna Chamberlin, 1949 – USA
• Ceratinella diversa Chamberlin, 1949 – USA
• Ceratinella fumifera Saito, 1939 – Japan
• Ceratinella hemetha Chamberlin, 1949 – USA
• Ceratinella holocerea Chamberlin, 1949 – USA
• Ceratinella kenaba Chamberlin, 1949 – USA
• Ceratinella kurenshchikovi Marusik & Gnelitsa, 2009 – Russia (Far East)
• Ceratinella major Kulczyński, 1894 – Europe
• Ceratinella ornatula (Crosby & Bishop, 1925) – USA, Canada, Greenland
  • Ceratinella o. alaskana Chamberlin, 1949 – USA (Alaska)
• Ceratinella parvula (Fox, 1891) – USA
• Ceratinella plancyi (Simon, 1880) – China
• Ceratinella playa Cokendolpher, Torrence, Smith & Dupérré, 2007 – USA
• Ceratinella rosea Oliger, 1985 – Russia (Far East)
• Ceratinella scabrosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
• Ceratinella sibirica Strand, 1903 – Russia (Middle Siberia)
• Ceratinella subulata Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – Japan
• Ceratinella sydneyensis Wunderlich, 1976 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Ceratinella tigana Chamberlin, 1949 – USA (Alaska)
• Ceratinella tosior Chamberlin, 1949 – USA
• Ceratinella wideri (Thorell, 1871) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species

References

1. "Gen. Ceratinella Emerton, 1882". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-13.
2. Emerton, J. H. (1882). "New England spiders of the family Theridiidae". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 6: 1–86. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.7410.