Dolichognatha

Dolichognatha is a genus of tropical and subtropical long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869.^[6] Originally placed with the Archaeidae,^[6] it was transferred to the Araneidae in 1967,^[7] and to the Tetragnathidae in 1981.^[2]

Dolichognatha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Tetragnathidae
Genus:	Dolichognatha O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869[1]
Type species
D. nietneri O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869
Species
32, see text
Synonyms[1]
Afiamalu Marples, 1955[2] Atimiosa Simon, 1895[3] Homalopoltys Simon, 1895[4] Landana Simon, 1883[2] Nicholasia Bryant & Archer, 1940[2] Paraebius Thorell, 1894[2] Prolochus Thorell, 1895[5][2]

Species

As of March 2021^[update] it contains thirty-two widely distributed species:^[1]

• 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