Biology:Microdipoena

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Microdipoena
Microdipoena guttata.jpg
Microdipoena guttata
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
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 August 2023) it contains twenty-one 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 — USA to Paraguay. Introduced to Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Comoros
  • Microdipoena huisun Zhang & Lin, 2023 — Taiwan
  • Microdipoena illectrix (Simon, 1895) — Philippines
  • Microdipoena jobi (Kraus, 1967) — Palearctic
  • 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) — 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
  • 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. "Gen. Microdipoena Banks, 1895". Natural History Museum Bern. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1989. Retrieved 22 August 2023. 

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