Glenognatha Explained

Glenognatha is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.^[1] It was considerably revised in 2016.^[2]

Species

it contains thirty-six species, found in North America, Central America, Asia, South America, the Caribbean, Africa, on the French Polynesian Islands, and Saint Helena:^[3]

• Glenognatha argenteoguttata (Berland, 1935) – Marquesas Is.
• Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Niger, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia. Introduced to Caribbean, Ecuador (mainland, Galapagos Is.), Brazil, St. Helena
• Glenognatha australis (Keyserling, 1883) – Ecuador to Argentina
• Glenognatha boraceia Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Brazil
• Glenognatha caaguara Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Brazil
• Glenognatha camisea Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Peru
• Glenognatha caparu Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia
• Glenognatha caporiaccoi Platnick, 1993 – Guyana
• Glenognatha chamberlini (Berland, 1942) – French Polynesia (Austral Is.)
• Glenognatha dentata (Zhu & Wen, 1978) – China, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam, Philippines
• Glenognatha emertoni Simon, 1887 (type) – USA
• Glenognatha florezi Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Colombia
• Glenognatha foxi (McCook, 1894) – Canada to Panama
• Glenognatha ganeshi (Bodkhe, Manthen & Tanikawa, 2014) — India
• Glenognatha gaujoni Simon, 1895 – Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil
• Glenognatha globosa (Petrunkevitch, 1925) – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
• Glenognatha gloriae (Petrunkevitch, 1930) – Puerto Rico
• Glenognatha gouldi Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – USA, Mexico
• Glenognatha heleios Hormiga, 1990 – USA
• Glenognatha hirsutissima (Berland, 1935) – Marquesas Is.
• Glenognatha iviei Levi, 1980 – USA
• Glenognatha januari Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Brazil
• Glenognatha lacteovittata (Mello-Leitão, 1944) – Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay
• Glenognatha ledouxi Dierkens, 2016 – French Polynesia (Society Is.: Tahiti)
• Glenognatha mendezi Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador
• Glenognatha minuta Banks, 1898 – Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Rep.
• Glenognatha nigromaculata (Berland, 1933) – Marquesas Is.
• Glenognatha osawai Baba & Tanikawa, 2018 – Japan
• Glenognatha paullula Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2020 — India
• Glenognatha patriceae Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Colombia
• Glenognatha phalangiops (Berland, 1942) – French Polynesia (Austral Is.)
• Glenognatha smilodon Bosmans & Bosselaers, 1994 – Cameroon
• Glenognatha spherella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Mexico to Peru
• Glenognatha tangi (Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003) – China, Myanmar
• Glenognatha timbira Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Brazil
• Glenognatha vivianae Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Brazil

In synonymy:

• G. atlantica (Holm, 1969) = Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)
• G. centralis Chamberlin, 1925 = Glenognatha minuta Banks, 1898
• G. hawigtenera (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) = Glenognatha dentata (Zhu & Wen, 1978)
• G. maelfaiti Baert, 1987 = Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)
• G. mira Bryant, 1945 = Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)
• G. montana (Simon, 1897) = Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)

See also

• List of Tetragnathidae species

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1887. Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 193–195. 7. 6. Eugène_Simon.
2. Cabra-García. J. J.. Brescovit. A. D.. 2016. Revision and phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider genus Glenognatha Simon, 1887 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa. 4069. 1. 45. Antônio_Brescovit. 10.11646/zootaxa.4069.1.1. 27395905.
3. Gen. Glenognatha Simon, 1887. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-11-16. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian. 2016-03-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304205029/http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3282. live.