Biology:Kaestneria

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Kaestneria
Kaestneria dorsalis F 2020a.jpg
Female Kaestneria dorsalis in Finland
Kaestneria dorsalis M 2020a.jpg
Male Kaestneria dorsalis in Finland
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Kaestneria
Wiehle, 1956[1]
Type species
K. dorsalis
(Wider, 1834)
Species

8, see text

Kaestneria is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by H. Wiehle in 1956.[2]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains eight species, found in Canada , China , Czech Republic, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan , Malaysia, Mongolia, Poland , Romania, Russia , Slovakia, Ukraine , and the United States :[1]

  • Kaestneria bicultrata Chen & Yin, 2000 – China, Indonesia (Sumatra, Belitung Is.)
  • Kaestneria dorsalis (Wider, 1834) (type) – Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
  • Kaestneria longissima (Zhu & Wen, 1983) – Russia (Far East), China
  • Kaestneria minima Locket, 1982 – Malaysia
  • Kaestneria pullata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1863) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), China, Mongolia, Japan
  • Kaestneria rufula (Hackman, 1954) – USA, Canada
  • Kaestneria torrentum (Kulczyński, 1882) – Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine
  • Kaestneria valentissima Irfan & Peng, 2018 – China
Female Kaestneria pullata

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Kaestneria Wiehle, 1956. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1378. Retrieved 2019-06-15. 
  2. Wiehle, H. (1956). "Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). 28. Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen". Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1–337. 

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