Dipoenata

Dipoenata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Dipoenata Wunderlich, 1988 [1]
Species
5, see text

Dipoenata is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1988. ^[2]

Species

As of May 2020 ^[update] it contains five species, found in Europe, Brazil, Venezuela, Panama, and on Hispaniola: ^[1]

• Dipoenata balboae (Chickering, 1943) – Panama, Venezuela
• Dipoenata cana Kritscher, 1996 – Malta
• Dipoenata conica (Chickering, 1943) – Panama, Brazil
• Dipoenata longitarsis (Denis, 1962) – Madeira
• Dipoenata morosa (Bryant, 1948) – Hispaniola to Brazil

Formerly included:

• D. canariensis(Wunderlich, 1987) (Transferred to Lasaeola )
• D. flavitarsisWunderlich, 1992 (Transferred to Lasaeola)
• D. sicki(Levi, 1963) (Transferred to Dipoena )

In synonymy:

• D. cylindrica = Dipoenata conica(Chickering, 1943)

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Dipoenata Wunderlich, 1988". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
2. Wunderlich, J. (1988). Die fossilen Spinnen im Dominikanischen Bernstein. Published by the author, Straubenhardt, Germany, pp. p. 378.