Saitonia

Saitonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Saitonia ; Eskov, 1992
Type species
	S. muscus ; (Saito, 1989)
Species
	6, see text

Last updated January 25, 2026

Saitonia is a genus of Asian sheet weavers that was first described by K. Y. Eskov in 1992.^[2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains six species, found in Korea, Japan, and China:^[1]

Saitonia kawaguchikonis Saito & Ono, 2001 – China, Japan
Saitonia longicephala (Saito, 1988) – Japan
Saitonia muscus (Saito, 1989) (type) – Japan
Saitonia ojiroensis (Saito, 1990) – Japan
Saitonia orientalis (Oi, 1960) – Japan
Saitonia pilosus Seo, 2011 – Korea

References

1 2 "Gen. Saitonia Eskov, 1992". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-23.
↑ Eskov, K. Y. (1992). "A restudy of the generic composition of the linyphiid spider fauna of the Far East (Araneida: Linyphiidae)". Entomologica Scandinavica. 23 (2): 153–168. doi:10.1163/187631292X00272.

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[wsc-1] 1 2 "Gen. Saitonia Eskov, 1992". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-23.

[Esko1992-2] Eskov, K. Y. (1992). "A restudy of the generic composition of the linyphiid spider fauna of the Far East (Araneida: Linyphiidae)". Entomologica Scandinavica. 23 (2): 153–168. doi:10.1163/187631292X00272.

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