Tapinopa

Tapinopa
T. bilineata in North America
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Tapinopa Westring, 1851 [1]
Type species
T. longidens (Wider, 1834)
Species
8, see text

Tapinopa is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Niklas Westring in 1851. ^[2]

Distribution

Spiders in this genus are found in Asia, Europe, and the United States: ^[1]

Species

As of January 2026 ^[update] , this genus includes nine species: ^[1]

• Tapinopa bilineata Banks, 1893 – Canada, United States
• Tapinopa disjugata Simon, 1884 – Algeria, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy (Sardinia)
• Tapinopa gerede Saaristo, 1997 – Turkey
• Tapinopa guttata Komatsu, 1937 – Russia (Far East), China, Japan
• Tapinopa hentzi Gertsch, 1951 – United States
• Tapinopa longicisterna Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 – China
• Tapinopa longidens (Wider, 1834) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to West Siberia)
• Tapinopa undata Zhao & Li, 2014 – China, Vietnam, Malaysia (peninsula)
• Tapinopa vara Locket, 1982 – China, Thailand, Malaysia (peninsula), Indonesia (Sumatra)

References

1. "Gen. Westring, 1851". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2026-01-19.
2. Westring, N. (1851). "Förteckning öfver de till närvarande tid Kände, i Sverige förekommande Spindlarter, utgörande ett antal af 253, deraf 132 äro nya för svenska Faunan". Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar. 2: 25–62.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Tapinopa at iNaturalist