Dolichognatha Explained

Dolichognatha is a genus of tropical and subtropical long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869.^[1] Originally placed with the Archaeidae, it was transferred to the Araneidae in 1967,^[2] and to the Tetragnathidae in 1981.^[3]

Species

it contains thirty-two widely distributed species:^[4]

• 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)

See also

• List of Tetragnathidae species

External links

• Book: Thorell, Tamerlan. 1895. Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma.

Notes and References

1. 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. 373–397. 10. Octavius_Pickard-Cambridge.
2. 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. Pekka_T._Lehtinen.
3. 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. Herbert_Walter_Levi.
4. Web site: Gen. Dolichognatha O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2021-03-06. 2021. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.