Dolichognatha

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

Species

it contains thirty-two widely distributed species:

• Dolichognatha aethiopica <small>Tullgren, 1910</small> – East Africa
• Dolichognatha albida <small>(Simon, 1895)</small> – Sri Lanka, Thailand
• Dolichognatha baforti <small>(Legendre, 1967)</small> – Congo
• Dolichognatha bannaensis <small>Wang, Zhang & Peng, 2020</small> — China
• Dolichognatha comorensis <small>(Schmidt & Krause, 1993)</small> – Comoros
• Dolichognatha cygnea <small>(Simon, 1893)</small> – Venezuela
• Dolichognatha deelemanae <small>Smith, 2008</small> – Borneo
• Dolichognatha ducke <small>Lise, 1993</small> – Brazil
• Dolichognatha erwini <small>Brescovit & Cunha, 2001</small> – Brazil
• Dolichognatha incanescens <small>(Simon, 1895)</small> – Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Borneo), New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
• Dolichognatha junlitjri <small>(Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2014)</small> – Philippines
• Dolichognatha kampa <small>Brescovit & Cunha, 2001</small> – Brazil
• Dolichognatha kratochvili <small>(Lessert, 1938)</small> – Congo
• Dolichognatha lodiculafaciens <small>(Hingston, 1932)</small> – Guyana
• Dolichognatha lonarensis <small>Bodkhe & Manthen, 2015</small> – India
• Dolichognatha longiceps <small>(Thorell, 1895)</small> – India, Myanmar, Thailand
• Dolichognatha mandibularis <small>(Thorell, 1894)</small> – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Dolichognatha mapia <small>Brescovit & Cunha, 2001</small> – Brazil
• Dolichognatha maturaca <small>Lise, 1993</small> – Brazil
• Dolichognatha minuscula <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1940)</small> – Guyana
• Dolichognatha nietneri <small>O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869</small> (type) – Sri Lanka
• Dolichognatha pentagona <small>(Hentz, 1850)</small> – USA to Venezuela
• Dolichognatha petiti <small>(Simon, 1884)</small> – Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
• Dolichognatha pinheiral <small>Brescovit & Cunha, 2001</small> – Brazil
• Dolichognatha proserpina <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1943)</small> – Brazil
• Dolichognatha quadrituberculata <small>(Keyserling, 1883)</small> – Peru
• Dolichognatha quinquemucronata <small>(Simon, 1895)</small> – Sri Lanka
• Dolichognatha raveni <small>Smith, 2008</small> – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
• Dolichognatha richardi <small>(Marples, 1955)</small> – Samoa
• Dolichognatha spinosa <small>(Petrunkevitch, 1939)</small> – Panama
• Dolichognatha tigrina <small>Simon, 1893</small> – Caribbean, northern South America
• Dolichognatha umbrophila <small>Tanikawa, 1991</small> – Taiwan, Japan (Okinawa Is.)

In synonymy:

• D. tuberculata <small>(Keyserling, 1893)</small> = Dolichognatha pentagona <small>(Hentz, 1850)</small>

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