Kaestneria
Female Kaestneria dorsalis in Finland
Male Kaestneria dorsalis in Finland
Scientific classification Edit this 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)
Species

8, see text

Kaestneria is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by H. Wiehle in 1956.[2]

Species

As of May 2019 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
Female Kaestneria pullata

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Kaestneria Wiehle, 1956". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  2. Wiehle, H. (1956). "Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). 28. Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen". Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. 44: 1–337.


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