Callitrichia Explained

Callitrichia is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by L. Fage in 1936.

Species

it contains fifty-six species:^[1]

• Callitrichia aberdarensis (Holm, 1962) – Kenya
• Callitrichia afromontana Scharff, 1990 – Tanzania
• Callitrichia aliena Holm, 1962 – Algeria, Cameroon, Kenya
• Callitrichia cacuminata Holm, 1962 – Kenya, Uganda
• Callitrichia casta (Jocqué & Scharff, 1986) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia celans (Gao, Xing & Zhu, 1996) – China
• Callitrichia concolor (Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya
• Callitrichia convector (Tanasevitch, 2014) – Thailand
• Callitrichia crinigera Scharff, 1990 – Tanzania
• Callitrichia cypericola (Jocqué, 1981) – Malawi
• Callitrichia galeata (Jocqué & Scharff, 1986) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia glabriceps Holm, 1962 – Kenya, Uganda
• Callitrichia gloriosa (Jocqué, 1984) – South Africa
• Callitrichia hamifera Fage, 1936 (type) – Kenya, Uganda
• Callitrichia hirsuta Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 2022 – Tanzania
• Callitrichia holmi (Wunderlich, 1978) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia inacuminata Bosmans, 1977 – Kenya
• Callitrichia incerta Miller, 1970 – Angola
• Callitrichia infecta (Jocqué & Scharff, 1986) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia insulana (Scharff, 1990) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia juguma (Scharff, 1990) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia kenyae Fage, 1936 – Kenya
• Callitrichia latitibialis (Bosmans, 1988) – Cameroon
• Callitrichia legrandi (Jocqué, 1985) – Comoros
• Callitrichia longiducta (Bosmans, 1988) – Guinea, Cameroon
• Callitrichia macrophthalma (Locket & Russell-Smith, 1980) – Nigeria, Ivory Coast
• Callitrichia marakweti Fage, 1936 – Kenya
• Callitrichia meruensis Holm, 1962 – Tanzania
• Callitrichia minuta (Jocqué, 1984) – South Africa
• Callitrichia mira (Jocqué & Scharff, 1986) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia monoceros (Miller, 1970) – Angola
• Callitrichia monticola (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia muscicola (Bosmans, 1988) – Cameroon
• Callitrichia obtusifrons Miller, 1970 – Angola
• Callitrichia paludicola Holm, 1962 – Tanzania
• Callitrichia paralegrandi (Tanasevitch, 2016) – India (Himalaya)
• Callitrichia perspicua (Scharff, 1990) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia picta (Caporiacco, 1949) – DR Congo, Kenya
• Callitrichia pileata (Jocqué & Scharff, 1986) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia pilosa (Wunderlich, 1978) – Ethiopia
• Callitrichia revelatrix (Jocqué & Scharff, 1986) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia rostrata (Jocqué & Scharff, 1986) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia ruwenzoriensis Holm, 1962 – Uganda
• Callitrichia sellafrontis Scharff, 1990 – Tanzania
• Callitrichia silvatica Holm, 1962 – Kenya, Uganda, Malawi
• Callitrichia summicola (Jocqué & Scharff, 1986) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia superciliosa (Jocqué, 1981) – Malawi
• Callitrichia taeniata Holm, 1968 – Tanzania
• Callitrichia telekii (Holm, 1962) – Kenya
• Callitrichia trituberculata (Bosmans, 1988) – Cameroon
• Callitrichia truncatula (Scharff, 1990) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia turrita Holm, 1962 – Tanzania
• Callitrichia uncata (Jocqué & Scharff, 1986) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia usitata (Jocqué & Scharff, 1986) – Tanzania
• Callitrichia virgo (Jocqué & Scharff, 1986) – Tanzania

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species

Notes and References

1. 2022 . Gen. Callitrichia Fage, 1936 . Natural History Museum Bern . 10.24436/2 . 3 June 2022 . World Spider Catalog Version 23.0.