Microdipoena is a cosmopolitan genus of dwarf cobweb weaver spiders in the family Mysmenidae. It was first described by Nathan Banks in 1895.[1]
| Microdipoena | |
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| Microdipoena guttata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Mysmenidae |
| Genus: | Microdipoena Banks, 1895 |
| Type species | |
| Microdipoena guttata Banks, 1895
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| Species | |
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21, see text | |
Species
editAs of August 2023[update] it contains twenty-one species:[2]
- Microdipoena comorensis (Baert, 1986) — Comoros
- Microdipoena elsae Saaristo, 1978 — Seychelles, Congo, Comoros
- Microdipoena gongi (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) — China
- Microdipoena guttata Banks, 1895 — USA to Paraguay. Introduced to Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Comoros
- Microdipoena huisun Zhang & Lin, 2023 — Taiwan
- Microdipoena illectrix (Simon, 1895) — Philippines
- Microdipoena jobi (Kraus, 1967) — Palearctic
- Microdipoena lisu Zhang & Lin, 2023 — China
- Microdipoena menglunensis (Lin & Li, 2008) — China
- Microdipoena mihindi (Baert, 1989) — Rwanda
- Microdipoena nyungwe Baert, 1989 — Rwanda, Tanzania, Madagascar
- Microdipoena ogatai (Ono, 2007) — Japan
- Microdipoena papuana (Baert, 1984) — New Guinea
- Microdipoena pseudojobi (Lin & Li, 2008) — China, Japan
- Microdipoena saltuensis (Simon, 1895) — Sri Lanka
- Microdipoena samoensis (Marples, 1955) — Samoa, Hawaii
- Microdipoena shenyang Zhang & Lin, 2023 — China
- Microdipoena thatitou Zhang & Lin, 2023 — Laos
- Microdipoena vanstallei Baert, 1985 — Cameroon
- Microdipoena yinae (Lin & Li, 2013) — China
- Microdipoena zhulin Zhang & Lin, 2023 — China
References
edit- ^ Banks, N. (1895). "A list of the spiders of Long Island; with descriptions of new species". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 3: 76–93.
- ^ "Gen. Microdipoena Banks, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 22 August 2023.