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Dolichognatha
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Tetragnathidae
Genus:	Dolichognatha O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869
Type species
D. nietneri O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869
Species
32, see text
Synonyms
Afiamalu Marples, 1955 Atimiosa Simon, 1895 Homalopoltys Simon, 1895 Landana Simon, 1883 Nicholasia Bryant & Archer, 1940 Paraebius Thorell, 1894 Prolochus Thorell, 1895

Dolichognatha is a genus of tropical and subtropical long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869. Originally placed with the Archaeidae, it was transferred to the Araneidae in 1967, and to the Tetragnathidae in 1981.

Species

As of March 2021 it contains thirty-two widely distributed species:

• Dolichognatha aethiopica Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa
• Dolichognatha albida (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka, Thailand
• Dolichognatha baforti (Legendre, 1967) – Congo
• Dolichognatha bannaensis Wang, Zhang & Peng, 2020 — China
• Dolichognatha comorensis (Schmidt & Krause, 1993) – Comoros
• Dolichognatha cygnea (Simon, 1893) – Venezuela
• Dolichognatha deelemanae Smith, 2008 – Borneo
• Dolichognatha ducke Lise, 1993 – Brazil
• Dolichognatha erwini Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
• Dolichognatha incanescens (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Borneo), New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
• Dolichognatha junlitjri (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2014) – Philippines
• Dolichognatha kampa Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
• Dolichognatha kratochvili (Lessert, 1938) – Congo
• Dolichognatha lodiculafaciens (Hingston, 1932) – Guyana
• Dolichognatha lonarensis Bodkhe & Manthen, 2015 – India
• Dolichognatha longiceps (Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar, Thailand
• Dolichognatha mandibularis (Thorell, 1894) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Dolichognatha mapia Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
• Dolichognatha maturaca Lise, 1993 – Brazil
• Dolichognatha minuscula (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Guyana
• Dolichognatha nietneri O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 (type) – Sri Lanka
• Dolichognatha pentagona (Hentz, 1850) – USA to Venezuela
• Dolichognatha petiti (Simon, 1884) – Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
• Dolichognatha pinheiral Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
• Dolichognatha proserpina (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
• Dolichognatha quadrituberculata (Keyserling, 1883) – Peru
• Dolichognatha quinquemucronata (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka
• Dolichognatha raveni Smith, 2008 – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
• Dolichognatha richardi (Marples, 1955) – Samoa
• Dolichognatha spinosa (Petrunkevitch, 1939) – Panama
• Dolichognatha tigrina Simon, 1893 – Caribbean, northern South America
• Dolichognatha umbrophila Tanikawa, 1991 – Taiwan, Japan (Okinawa Is.)

In synonymy:

• D. tuberculata (Keyserling, 1893) = Dolichognatha pentagona (Hentz, 1850)

See also

• List of Tetragnathidae species

References

1. ^ "Gen. Dolichognatha O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
2. ^ Levi, H. W. (1981). "The American orb-weaver genera Dolichognatha and Tetragnatha north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae, Tetragnathinae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 149: 277.
3. Dimitrov, D.; Álvarez-Padilla, F.; Hormiga, G. (2010). "On the phylogenetic placement of the spider genus Atimiosa Simon, 1895, and the circumscription of Dolichognatha O.P.-Cambridge, 1869 (Tetragnathidae, Araneae)". American Museum Novitates. 3683: 6.
4. Smith, H. M. (2008). "Synonymy of Homalopoltys (Araneae: Araneidae) with the genus Dolichognatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) and descriptions of two new species". Zootaxa. 1775: 10.
5. Kallal, R. J.; Hormiga, G. (2018). "An expanded molecular phylogeny of metaine spiders (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with description of new taxa from Taiwan and the Philippines". Invertebrate Systematics. 32 (2): 414.
6. ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1869). "Catalogue of a collection of Ceylon Araneida lately received from Mr J. Nietner, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. I". Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 10: 373–397.
7. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 289.

External links

• Thorell, Tamerlan (1895). Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma.

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