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| Female Kaestneria dorsalis in Finland | |
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| Male Kaestneria dorsalis in Finland | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Kaestneria Wiehle, 1956 |
| Type species | |
| K. dorsalis (Wider, 1834) | |
| Species | |
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Kaestneria is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by H. Wiehle in 1956.
Species
As of May 2019 it contains eight species, found in Canada, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, and the United States:
- 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
References
- ^ "Gen. Kaestneria Wiehle, 1956". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- Wiehle, H. (1956). "Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). 28. Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen". Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. 44: 1–337.
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