Microdipoena

Microdipoena
female M. guttata
male M. guttata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Mysmenidae
Genus:	Microdipoena Banks, 1895
Type species
Microdipoena guttata Banks, 1895
Species
21, see text

Microdipoena is a cosmopolitan genus of dwarf cobweb weaver spiders in the family Mysmenidae. It was first described by Nathan Banks in 1895. ^[1]

Species

As of September 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes 21 species: ^[2]

• Microdipoena comorensis (Baert, 1986) – Comoros
• Microdipoena elsae Saaristo, 1978 – Seychelles, Congo, Comoros
• Microdipoena gongi (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) – China
• Microdipoena guttata Banks, 1895 – Canada, United States, Paraguay. Introduced to Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Comoros (type species)
• Microdipoena huisun Zhang & Lin, 2023 – Taiwan
• Microdipoena illectrix (Simon, 1895) – Philippines
• Microdipoena jobi (Kraus, 1967) – Europe, Caucasus, Iran, China?, Japan?
• Microdipoena lisu Zhang & Lin, 2023 – China
• Microdipoena menglunensis (Lin & Li, 2008) – China
• Microdipoena mihindi (Baert, 1989) – Rwanda
• Microdipoena nyungwe Baert, 1989 – Rwanda, Tanzania, Madagascar
• Microdipoena ogatai (Ono, 2007) – Korea, Japan
• Microdipoena papuana (Baert, 1984) – New Guinea
• Microdipoena pseudojobi (Lin & Li, 2008) – China, Japan
• Microdipoena saltuensis (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka
• Microdipoena samoensis (Marples, 1955) – Samoa, Hawaii
• Microdipoena shenyang Zhang & Lin, 2023 – China, Korea
• Microdipoena thatitou Zhang & Lin, 2023 – Laos
• Microdipoena vanstallei Baert, 1985 – Cameroon
• Microdipoena yinae (Lin & Li, 2013) – China
• Microdipoena zhulin Zhang & Lin, 2023 – China

References

1. Banks, N. (1895). "A list of the spiders of Long Island; with descriptions of new species". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 3: 76–93.
2. "Genus Microdipoena". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 24 September 2025.