Dolichognatha

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Dolichognatha
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Tetragnathidae
Genus: Dolichognatha
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 [1]
Type species
D. nietneri
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869
Species

32, see text

Synonyms [1]

Dolichognatha is a genus of tropical and subtropical long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869. [6] Originally placed with the Archaeidae, [6] it was transferred to the Araneidae in 1967, [7] and to the Tetragnathidae in 1981. [2]

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Species

As of March 2021 it contains thirty-two widely distributed species: [1]

In synonymy:

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Dolichognatha O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Levi, H. W. (1981). "The American orb-weaver genera Dolichognatha and Tetragnatha north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae, Tetragnathinae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 149: 277.
  3. Dimitrov, D.; Álvarez-Padilla, F.; Hormiga, G. (2010). "On the phylogenetic placement of the spider genus Atimiosa Simon, 1895, and the circumscription of Dolichognatha O.P.-Cambridge, 1869 (Tetragnathidae, Araneae)". American Museum Novitates. 3683: 6.
  4. Smith, H. M. (2008). "Synonymy of Homalopoltys (Araneae: Araneidae) with the genus Dolichognatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) and descriptions of two new species". Zootaxa. 1775: 10.
  5. Kallal, R. J.; Hormiga, G. (2018). "An expanded molecular phylogeny of metaine spiders (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with description of new taxa from Taiwan and the Philippines". Invertebrate Systematics. 32 (2): 414.
  6. 1 2 Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1869). "Catalogue of a collection of Ceylon Araneida lately received from Mr J. Nietner, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. I". Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 10: 373–397.
  7. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 289.