Gonatium
| Gonatium | |
|---|---|
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| G. rubens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Gonatium Menge, 1868[1] |
| Type species | |
| G. rubens (Blackwall, 1833) | |
| Species | |
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20, see text | |
Gonatium is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Anton Menge in 1868.[2]
Species
[edit]As of June 2025[update] it contains twenty species, found in Algeria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Macedonia, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey, and the United States:[1][3]
- Gonatium arimaense Oi, 1960 – Korea, Japan
- Gonatium biimpressum Simon, 1884 – France (Corsica), Italy
- Gonatium cappadocium Millidge, 1981 – Turkey
- Gonatium crassipalpum Bryant, 1933 – USA, Canada
- Gonatium dayense Simon, 1884 – Algeria
- Gonatium ensipotens (Simon, 1881) – Portugal, Spain, France, Italy
- Gonatium geniculosum Simon, 1918 – France
- Gonatium hilare (Thorell, 1875) – Central and southern Europe, Azerbaijan?
- Gonatium japonicum Simon, 1906 – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
- Gonatium nemorivagum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – Southern Europe
- Gonatium nipponicum Millidge, 1981 – Russia (Far East), Japan
- Gonatium occidentale Simon, 1918 – Spain, France, Morocco, Algeria, Israel
- Gonatium orientale Fage, 1931 – Romania, Bulgaria
- Gonatium pacificum Eskov, 1989 – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East)
- Gonatium paradoxum (L. Koch, 1869) – Europe
- Gonatium petrunkewitschi Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
- Gonatium rubellum (Blackwall, 1841) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
- Gonatium rubens (Blackwall, 1833) (type) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Japan
- Gonatium strugaense Drensky, 1929 – Macedonia
- Gonatium tridentatum Irfan, Zhang, Cai & Zhang, 2025 – China (Chongqing)[3]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Gen. Gonatium Menge, 1868". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
- ↑ Menge, A. (1868). "Preussische Spinnen. II. Abtheilung". Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig. 2: 153–218.
- 1 2 Irfan, Muhammad; Zhang, Chang-Cheng; Cai, Yu-Jun; Zhang, Zhi-Sheng (2025-06-18). "Four new species of Linyphiidae spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Jiangjin District of Chongqing, China". Zootaxa. 5647 (5): 435–450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5647.5.2. ISSN 1175-5334.