Kaestneria
Appearance
Kaestneria | |
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Female Kaestneria dorsalis in Finland | |
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Male Kaestneria dorsalis in Finland | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
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)
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Species | |
8, see text |
Kaestneria is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by H. Wiehle in 1956.[2]
Species
[edit]As of May 2019[update] 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
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Kaestneria_pullata_F_2021D.jpg/220px-Kaestneria_pullata_F_2021D.jpg)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Kaestneria Wiehle, 1956". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ^ Wiehle, H. (1956). "Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). 28. Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen". Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. 44: 1–337.