Zygiometella is a monotypic genus of Asian long-jawed orb-weavers containing the single species, Zygiometella perlongipes. The species was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1872 under the name "Tetragnatha perlongipes",[2] and it was transferred to its own genus in 1995.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Tetragnathidae |
| Genus: | Zygiometella Wunderlich, 1995[1] |
| Species: | Z. perlongipes
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| Binomial name | |
| Zygiometella perlongipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)
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See also
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edit- ^ a b "Gen. Zygiometella Wunderlich, 1995". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). "General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 40 (1): 296.
- ^ Wunderlich, J. (1995). "Beschreibung der neuen Spinnen-Gattung Zygiometella der Tetragnathidae: Metinae und eines bisher unbekannten Typs von Stridulations-Organen (Arachnida: Araneae)". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 4 (1994): 639–642.