Glenognatha

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Glenognatha is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.[3] It was considerably revised in 2016.[4]

Glenognatha
Female Glenognatha dentata from Okinawa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Tetragnathidae
Genus: Glenognatha
Simon, 1887[1]
Type species
G. emertoni
Simon, 1887
Species

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Synonyms[1]

Species

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As of March 2021 it contains thirty-six species, found in North America, Central America, Asia, South America, the Caribbean, Africa, on the French Polynesian Islands, and Saint Helena:[1]

In synonymy:

  • G. atlantica (Holm, 1969) = Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)
  • G. centralis Chamberlin, 1925 = Glenognatha minuta Banks, 1898
  • G. hawigtenera (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) = Glenognatha dentata (Zhu & Wen, 1978)
  • G. maelfaiti Baert, 1987 = Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)
  • G. mira Bryant, 1945 = Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)
  • G. montana (Simon, 1897) = Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Glenognatha Simon, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  2. ^ a b Levi, H. W. (1980). "The orb-weaver genus Mecynogea, the subfamily Metinae and the genera Pachygnatha, Glenognatha and Azilia of the subfamily Tetragnathinae north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 149: 64.
  3. ^ Simon, E. (1887). "Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 7 (6): 193–195.
  4. ^ Cabra-García, J. J.; Brescovit, A. D. (2016). "Revision and phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider genus Glenognatha Simon, 1887 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)". Zootaxa. 4069 (1): 45. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4069.1.1. PMID 27395905.