''Dolichognatha'' is a
genus
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of
tropical
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and
subtropical
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long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider from a large collection that he made with contrib ...
in 1869.
Originally placed with the
Archaeidae
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,
it was transferred to the
Araneidae
Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae. They are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields, and forests. The English word "orb" can mean "circular", hence the English name ...
in 1967,
and to the
Tetragnathidae
Long-jawed orb weavers or long jawed spiders (Tetragnathidae) are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Anton Menge in 1866. They have elongated bodies, legs, and chelicerae, and build small orb webs with an open hub with few, wide-s ...
in 1981.
Species
it contains thirty-two widely distributed species:
*''
Dolichognatha aethiopica''
Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa
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Dolichognatha albida''
(Simon
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, 1895) – Sri Lanka, Thailand
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Dolichognatha baforti''
(Legendre, 1967) – Congo
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Dolichognatha bannaensis''
Wang, Zhang & Peng, 2020 — China
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Dolichognatha comorensis''
(Schmidt
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& Krause, 1993) –
Comoros
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Dolichognatha cygnea''
(Simon, 1893) – Venezuela
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Dolichognatha deelemanae''
Smith, 2008 –
Borneo
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Dolichognatha ducke''
Lise, 1993 – Brazil
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Dolichognatha erwini''
Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
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Dolichognatha incanescens''
(Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Borneo), New Guinea, Australia (
Queensland
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)
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Dolichognatha junlitjri''
(Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2014) – Philippines
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Dolichognatha kampa''
Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
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Dolichognatha kratochvili''
(Lessert, 1938) – Congo
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Dolichognatha lodiculafaciens''
(Hingston, 1932) – Guyana
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Dolichognatha lonarensis''
Bodkhe & Manthen, 2015 – India
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Dolichognatha longiceps''
( Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar, Thailand
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Dolichognatha mandibularis''
(Thorell, 1894) – Indonesia (
Sumatra
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)
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Dolichognatha mapia''
Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
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Dolichognatha maturaca''
Lise, 1993 – Brazil
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Dolichognatha minuscula''
( Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Guyana
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Dolichognatha nietneri''
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 (
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) – Sri Lanka
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Dolichognatha pentagona''
( Hentz, 1850) – USA to Venezuela
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Dolichognatha petiti''
(Simon, 1884) – Congo, Equatorial Guinea (
Bioko
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)
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Dolichognatha pinheiral''
Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
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Dolichognatha proserpina''
(Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
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Dolichognatha quadrituberculata''
(Keyserling Keyserling is the surname of several members of the noble House of Keyserlingk:
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* Hermann Gr ...
, 1883) – Peru
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Dolichognatha quinquemucronata''
(Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka
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Dolichognatha raveni''
Smith, 2008 – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
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Dolichognatha richardi''
( Marples, 1955) –
Samoa
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Dolichognatha spinosa''
( Petrunkevitch, 1939) – Panama
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Dolichognatha tigrina''
Simon, 1893 – Caribbean, northern South America
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Dolichognatha umbrophila''
Tanikawa, 1991 – Taiwan, Japan (Okinawa Is.)
In synonymy:
*''D. tuberculata''
(Keyserling, 1893) = ''Dolichognatha pentagona''
(Hentz, 1850)
See also
*
List of Tetragnathidae species
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References
External links
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Tetragnathidae genera
Cosmopolitan spiders
Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Tetragnathidae
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