Dolichognatha

Dolichognatha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Tetragnathidae
Genus:	Dolichognatha O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869[1]
Type species
Dolichognatha nietneri O. P.-Cambridge, 1869[1]
Synonyms[1]
Afiamalu Marples, 1955 Atimiosa Simon, 1895 Homalopoltys Simon, 1895 Landana Simon, 1884 Paraebius Thorell, 1894 Prolochus Thorell, 1895

Dolichognatha is a widespread genus of tropical and subtropical spiders.

Species

As of April 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:^[1]

• Dolichognatha aethiopica Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa
• Dolichognatha albida (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka, Thailand
• Dolichognatha baforti (Legendre, 1967) – Congo
• Dolichognatha comorensis (Schmidt & Krause, 1993) – Comoro Is.
• 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, Borneo, New Guinea, Queensland
• Dolichognatha kampa Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
• Dolichognatha kratochvili (Lessert, 1938) – Congo
• Dolichognatha lodiculafaciens (Hingston, 1932) – Guyana
• Dolichognatha lonarensis Bodkhe & Manthen, 2015 – India
• Dolichognatha longiceps (Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar, Thailand
• Dolichognatha mandibularis (Thorell, 1894) – Sumatra
• Dolichognatha mapia Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
• Dolichognatha maturaca Lise, 1993 – Brazil
• Dolichognatha minuscula (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Guyana
• Dolichognatha nietneri O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 – Sri Lanka
• Dolichognatha pentagona (Hentz, 1850) – USA to Venezuela
• Dolichognatha petiti (Simon, 1884) – Congo, 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, Queensland
• Dolichognatha richardi (Marples, 1955) – Samoa
• Dolichognatha spinosa (Petrunkevitch, 1939) – Panama
• Dolichognatha tigrina Simon, 1893 – West Indies, northern South America
• Dolichognatha umbrophila Tanikawa, 1991 – Taiwan, Okinawa Is.

References

1. "Gen. Dolichognatha O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-04-22.

• Tamerlan Thorell (1895). Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma
• Helen M. Smith (2008). "Synonymy of Homalopoltys (Araneae: Araneidae) with the genus Dolichognatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) and descriptions of two new species" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa 1775: 1–24.