Microdipoena

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Mysmenidae
Genus: Microdipoena
Species: M. comorensis – M. elsae – M. gongi – M. guttata – M. huisun – M. illectrix – M. jobi – M. lisu – M. menglunensis – M. mihindi – M. nyungwe – M. ogatai – M. papuana – M. pseudojobi – M. saltuensis – M. samoensis – M. shenyang – M. thatitou – M. vanstallei – M. yinae – M. zhulin
Name

Microdipoena Banks, 1895

Type species: Microdipoena guttata Banks, 1895, by monotypy

Gender: Feminine
Synonymy

Anjouanella Baert, 1986: 265 (synonymized by Lopardo and Hormiga 2015: 783)
Type species: Anjouanella comorensis Baert, 1986
Mysmenella Brignoli, 1980: 731 (synonymized by Lopardo and Hormiga 2015: 783)
Type species: Mysmena illectrix Simon, 1895

References

Banks, N. 1895. A list of the spiders of Long Island; with descriptions of new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 3: 76–93. [84]
Saaristo, M. I. 1978. Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the Seychelle islands, with notes on taxonomy. Annales Zoologici Fennici 15: 99–126. [125]
Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]
Zhang, Q.Q. & Lin, Y-C. 2023. Phylogenetic placement of eight poorly known spiders of Microdipoena (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with descriptions of five new species. Zookeys 1175ː 333–373. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1175.90920 Open access Reference page.

Microdipoena is a cosmopolitan genus of dwarf cobweb weaver spiders in the family Mysmenidae. It was first described by Nathan Banks in 1895.[1]
Species

As of August 2023 it contains twenty-one species:[2]

Microdipoena comorensis (Baert, 1986) — Comoros
Microdipoena elsae Saaristo, 1978 — Seychelles, Congo, Comoros
Microdipoena gongi (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) — China
Microdipoena guttata Banks, 1895 — USA to Paraguay. Introduced to Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Comoros
Microdipoena huisun Zhang & Lin, 2023 — Taiwan
Microdipoena illectrix (Simon, 1895) — Philippines
Microdipoena jobi (Kraus, 1967) — Palearctic
Microdipoena lisu Zhang & Lin, 2023 — China
Microdipoena menglunensis (Lin & Li, 2008) — China
Microdipoena mihindi (Baert, 1989) — Rwanda
Microdipoena nyungwe Baert, 1989 — Rwanda, Tanzania, Madagascar
Microdipoena ogatai (Ono, 2007) — Japan
Microdipoena papuana (Baert, 1984) — New Guinea
Microdipoena pseudojobi (Lin & Li, 2008) — China, Japan
Microdipoena saltuensis (Simon, 1895) — Sri Lanka
Microdipoena samoensis (Marples, 1955) — Samoa, Hawaii
Microdipoena shenyang Zhang & Lin, 2023 — China
Microdipoena thatitou Zhang & Lin, 2023 — Laos
Microdipoena vanstallei Baert, 1985 — Cameroon
Microdipoena yinae (Lin & Li, 2013) — China
Microdipoena zhulin Zhang & Lin, 2023 — China

References

Banks, N. (1895). "A list of the spiders of Long Island; with descriptions of new species". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 3: 76–93.
"Gen. Microdipoena Banks, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 22 August 2023.