Diplocentria

Diplocentria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Diplocentria ; Hull, 1911
Type species
	D. bidentata ; (Emerton, 1882)
Species
	8, see text
Synonyms
	MicrocentriaSchenkel, 1925; ScotoussaBishop & Crosby, 1938; SmodigoidesCrosby & Bishop, 1936;

Last updated January 25, 2026

Diplocentria is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by J. E. Hull in 1911.^[4]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains eight species:^[1]

Diplocentria bidentata (Emerton, 1882) (type) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
Diplocentria changajensis Wunderlich, 1995 – Mongolia
Diplocentria forsslundi Holm, 1939 – Sweden
Diplocentria hiberna (Barrows, 1945) – USA
Diplocentria mediocris (Simon, 1884) – Europe
Diplocentria perplexa (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1939) – USA, Canada
Diplocentria rectangulata (Emerton, 1915) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
Diplocentria retinax (Crosby & Bishop, 1936) – USA, Canada

References

1 2 3 "Gen. Diplocentria Hull, 1911". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-13.
↑ Wunderlich, J. (1970). "Zur Synonymie einiger Spinnen-Gattungen und -Arten aus Europa und Nordamerika (Arachnida: Araneae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 51: 407.
1 2 Holm, Å. (1945). "Zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Torneträskgebietes". Arkiv för Zoologi. 36: 19.
↑ Hull, J. E. (1911). "Papers on spiders". Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland. 3 (3): 573–590.

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[wsc-1] 1 2 3 "Gen. Diplocentria Hull, 1911". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-13.

[Wund1970-2] Wunderlich, J. (1970). "Zur Synonymie einiger Spinnen-Gattungen und -Arten aus Europa und Nordamerika (Arachnida: Araneae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 51: 407.

[Holm1945-3] 1 2 Holm, Å. (1945). "Zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Torneträskgebietes". Arkiv för Zoologi. 36: 19.

[Hull1911-4] Hull, J. E. (1911). "Papers on spiders". Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland. 3 (3): 573–590.

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