Oedignatha

Oedignatha, from Ancient Greek οἰδάω (oidáō), meaning "to swell", and γνάθος (gnáthos), meaning "jaw", is a genus of Asian spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881 as a genus of corinnid sac spiders,^[2] and moved to Liocranidae in 2014.^[3]

Oedignatha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Liocranidae
Genus:	Oedignatha Thorell, 1881[1]
Type species
O. scrobiculata Thorell, 1881
Species
37, see text

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains thirty-seven species in Southeast Asia,^[1] several of which were transferred from other genera, including O. aleipata from Storena,^[4] O. andamanensis & O. raigadensis from Amaurobius,^[5][6] O. proboscidea from Corinna,^[5] and O. ferox from the former monotypic genus Aepygnatha.^[7]

• Oedignatha affinis Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha albofasciata Strand, 1907 – India
• Oedignatha aleipata (Marples, 1955) – Samoa
• Oedignatha andamanensis (Tikader, 1977) – India (Andaman Is.)
• Oedignatha barbata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand
• Oedignatha bicolor Simon, 1896 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha binoyii Reddy & Patel, 1993 – India
• Oedignatha bucculenta Thorell, 1897 – Myanmar
• Oedignatha canaca Berland, 1938 – Vanuatu
• Oedignatha carli Reimoser, 1934 – India
• Oedignatha coriacea Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha dentifera Reimoser, 1934 – India
• Oedignatha escheri Reimoser, 1934 – India
• Oedignatha ferox (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar
• Oedignatha flavipes Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha gulosa Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha indica Reddy & Patel, 1993 – India
• Oedignatha jocquei Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand
• Oedignatha lesserti Reimoser, 1934 – India
• Oedignatha major Simon, 1896 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha microscutata Reimoser, 1934 – India
• Oedignatha mogamoga Marples, 1955 – Seychelles, Malaysia, Indonesia (Borneo). Introduced to Samoa
• Oedignatha montigena Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha platnicki Song & Zhu, 1998 – China (Hong Kong), Taiwan
• Oedignatha poonaensis Majumder & Tikader, 1991 – India
• Oedignatha proboscidea (Strand, 1913) – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha procerula Simon, 1897 – India
• Oedignatha raigadensis Bastawade, 2006 – India
• Oedignatha retusa Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha rugulosa Thorell, 1897 – Myanmar
• Oedignatha scrobiculata Thorell, 1881 (type) – Seychelles, Reunion, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan
• Oedignatha shillongensis Biswas & Majumder, 1995 – India
• Oedignatha sima Simon, 1886 – Thailand
• Oedignatha spadix Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Is.)
• Oedignatha striata Simon, 1897 – Sri Lanka
• Oedignatha tricuspidata Reimoser, 1934 – India
• Oedignatha uncata Reimoser, 1934 – India