Microlinyphia
| Microlinyphia | |
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| M. pusilla | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Microlinyphia Gerhardt, 1928[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. pusilla (Sundevall, 1830)
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| Species | |
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11, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Microlinyphia is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by U. Gerhardt in 1928.[4]
Species
As of May 2019[update] it contains eleven species and two subspecies:[1]
- Microlinyphia aethiopica (Tullgren, 1910) – East Africa
- Microlinyphia cylindriformis Jocqué, 1985 – Comoros
- Microlinyphia dana (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943) – Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia[5]
- Microlinyphia delesserti (Caporiacco, 1949) – Tanzania, Uganda, Congo
- Microlinyphia impigra (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) – North America, Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
- Microlinyphia johnsoni (Blackwall, 1859) – Madeira, Canary Is.
- Microlinyphia mandibulata (Emerton, 1882) – USA
- Microlinyphia m. punctata (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943) – USA, Canada
- Microlinyphia pusilla (Sundevall, 1830) (type) – North America (Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nunavut, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory),[5] Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Japan
- Microlinyphia p. quadripunctata (Strand, 1903) – Russia (South Siberia)
- Microlinyphia simoni van Helsdingen, 1970 – Madagascar
- Microlinyphia sterilis (Pavesi, 1883) – Central, East, Southern Africa; China
- Microlinyphia zhejiangensis (Chen, 1991) – China
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Gen. Microlinyphia Gerhardt, 1928". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
- ^ Helsdingen, P. J. van (1970). "A reclassification of the species of Linyphia based on the functioning of the genitalia (Araneida, Linyphiidae), II". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 111: 4.
- ^ Wiehle, H. (1956). "Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). 28. Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen". Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. 44: 297.
- ^ Gerhardt, U. (1928). "Biologische Studien an griechischen, corsischen und deutschen Spinnen". Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere. 10 (4): 576–675.
- ^ a b "Genus Microlinyphia". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-16.