Dolichognatha
Genus of spiders
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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]
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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 | |
| D. nietneri O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
As of March 2021[update] 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
- Dolichognatha bannaensis Wang, Zhang & Peng, 2020 — China
- Dolichognatha comorensis (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
- Dolichognatha lonarensis 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)