Microlinyphia

Microlinyphia is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by U. Gerhardt in 1928.^[4]

Microlinyphia
M. pusilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Microlinyphia Gerhardt, 1928[1]
Type species
Linyphia pusilla Sundevall, 1830
Species
11, see text
Synonyms[1]
Bonnetiella Caporiacco, 1949[2] Pusillia Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943[3]

Species

As of May 2021^[update] it contains eleven species and one subspecies:^[1]

• Microlinyphia aethiopica (Tullgren, 1910) – East Africa
• Microlinyphia cylindriformis Jocqué, 1985 – Comoros
• Microlinyphia dana (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943) – Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia^[5]
• Microlinyphia delesserti (Caporiacco, 1949) – Tanzania, Uganda, Congo
• Microlinyphia impigra (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) – North America, Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
• Microlinyphia johnsoni (Blackwall, 1859) – Madeira, Canary Is.
• Microlinyphia mandibulata (Emerton, 1882) – USA
  • Microlinyphia m. punctata (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943) – USA, Canada
• Microlinyphia pusilla (Sundevall, 1830) (type) – North America (Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nunavut, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory),^[5] Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Japan
• Microlinyphia simoni van Helsdingen, 1970 – Madagascar
• Microlinyphia sterilis (Pavesi, 1883) – Central, East, Southern Africa; China
• Microlinyphia zhejiangensis (Chen, 1991) – China

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)