Kaestneria Explained

Kaestneria is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by H. Wiehle in 1956.^[1]

Species

it contains eight species, found in Canada, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, and the United States:^[2]

• 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

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

Notes and References

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