Dolichognatha

Dolichognatha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Tetragnathidae
Genus:	Dolichognatha; O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869
Type species
	D. nietneri; O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869
Species
	32, see text
Synonyms
	Afiamalu Marples, 1955; Atimiosa Simon, 1895; Homalopoltys Simon, 1895; Landana Simon, 1883; Nicholasia Bryant & Archer, 1940; Paraebius Thorell, 1894; Prolochus Thorell, 1895;

Dolichognatha is a genus of tropical and subtropical long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869.^[6] Originally placed with the Archaeidae,^[6] it was transferred to the Araneidae in 1967,^[7] and to the Tetragnathidae in 1981.^[2]

Species[]

As of March 2021 it contains thirty-two widely distributed species:^[1]

Dolichognatha aethiopica Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa
Dolichognatha albida (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka, Thailand
Dolichognatha baforti (Legendre, 1967) – Congo
Wang, Zhang & Peng, 2020 — China
(Schmidt & Krause, 1993) – Comoros
Dolichognatha cygnea (Simon, 1893) – Venezuela
Dolichognatha deelemanae Smith, 2008 – Borneo
Dolichognatha ducke Lise, 1993 – Brazil
Dolichognatha erwini Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
Dolichognatha incanescens (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Borneo), New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
Dolichognatha junlitjri (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2014) – Philippines
Dolichognatha kampa Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
Dolichognatha kratochvili (Lessert, 1938) – Congo
Dolichognatha lodiculafaciens (Hingston, 1932) – Guyana
Bodkhe & Manthen, 2015 – India
Dolichognatha longiceps (Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar, Thailand
Dolichognatha mandibularis (Thorell, 1894) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
Dolichognatha mapia Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
Dolichognatha maturaca Lise, 1993 – Brazil
Dolichognatha minuscula (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Guyana
Dolichognatha nietneri O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 (type) – Sri Lanka
Dolichognatha pentagona (Hentz, 1850) – USA to Venezuela
Dolichognatha petiti (Simon, 1884) – Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
Dolichognatha pinheiral Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
Dolichognatha proserpina (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
Dolichognatha quadrituberculata (Keyserling, 1883) – Peru
Dolichognatha quinquemucronata (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka
Dolichognatha raveni Smith, 2008 – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
Dolichognatha richardi (Marples, 1955) – Samoa
Dolichognatha spinosa (Petrunkevitch, 1939) – Panama
Dolichognatha tigrina Simon, 1893 – Caribbean, northern South America
Dolichognatha umbrophila Tanikawa, 1991 – Taiwan, Japan (Okinawa Is.)

In synonymy:

D. tuberculata (Keyserling, 1893) = Dolichognatha pentagona (Hentz, 1850)

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Gen. Dolichognatha O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Levi, H. W. (1981). "The American orb-weaver genera Dolichognatha and Tetragnatha north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae, Tetragnathinae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 149: 277.
^ Dimitrov, D.; Álvarez-Padilla, F.; Hormiga, G. (2010). "On the phylogenetic placement of the spider genus Atimiosa Simon, 1895, and the circumscription of Dolichognatha O.P.-Cambridge, 1869 (Tetragnathidae, Araneae)". American Museum Novitates. 3683: 6.
^ Smith, H. M. (2008). "Synonymy of Homalopoltys (Araneae: Araneidae) with the genus Dolichognatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) and descriptions of two new species". Zootaxa. 1775: 10.
^ Kallal, R. J.; Hormiga, G. (2018). "An expanded molecular phylogeny of metaine spiders (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with description of new taxa from Taiwan and the Philippines". Invertebrate Systematics. 32 (2): 414.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1869). "Catalogue of a collection of Ceylon Araneida lately received from Mr J. Nietner, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. I". Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 10: 373–397.
^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 289.

External links[]

Thorell, Tamerlan (1895). Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma.

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[NMBE-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Gen. Dolichognatha O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-03-06.

[Levi1981-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Levi, H. W. (1981). "The American orb-weaver genera Dolichognatha and Tetragnatha north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae, Tetragnathinae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 149: 277.

[Dimi2010-3] Dimitrov, D.; Álvarez-Padilla, F.; Hormiga, G. (2010). "On the phylogenetic placement of the spider genus Atimiosa Simon, 1895, and the circumscription of Dolichognatha O.P.-Cambridge, 1869 (Tetragnathidae, Araneae)". American Museum Novitates. 3683: 6.

[Smit2008-4] Smith, H. M. (2008). "Synonymy of Homalopoltys (Araneae: Araneidae) with the genus Dolichognatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) and descriptions of two new species". Zootaxa. 1775: 10.

[Kall2018-5] Kallal, R. J.; Hormiga, G. (2018). "An expanded molecular phylogeny of metaine spiders (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with description of new taxa from Taiwan and the Philippines". Invertebrate Systematics. 32 (2): 414.

[Pick1869-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1869). "Catalogue of a collection of Ceylon Araneida lately received from Mr J. Nietner, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. I". Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 10: 373–397.

[Leht1967-7] Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 289.

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