Microlinyphia Explained

Microlinyphia is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by U. Gerhardt in 1928.^[1]

Species

it contains eleven species and one subspecies:^[2]

• Microlinyphia aethiopica (Tullgren, 1910) – East Africa
• Microlinyphia cylindriformis Jocqué, 1985 – Comoros
• Microlinyphia dana (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943) – Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia^[3]
• Microlinyphia delesserti (Caporiacco, 1949) – Tanzania, Uganda, Congo
• Microlinyphia impigra (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) – North America, Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
• Microlinyphia johnsoni (Blackwall, 1859) – Madeira, Canary Is.
• Microlinyphia mandibulata (Emerton, 1882) – USA
  • Microlinyphia m. punctata (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943) – USA, Canada
• Microlinyphia pusilla (Sundevall, 1830) (type) – North America (Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nunavut, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory), Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Japan
• Microlinyphia simoni van Helsdingen, 1970 – Madagascar
• Microlinyphia sterilis (Pavesi, 1883) – Central, East, Southern Africa; China
• Microlinyphia zhejiangensis (Chen, 1991) – China

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

Notes and References

1. Gerhardt. U.. 1928. Biologische Studien an griechischen, corsischen und deutschen Spinnen. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere. 576–675. 10. 4. 10.1007/BF00419324. 42362217.
2. Gen. Microlinyphia Gerhardt, 1928. World Spider Catalog Version 22.0. 2021-05-30. 2021. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
3. Web site: Genus Microlinyphia. BugGuide. 2019-06-16.