Linyphia is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1804.[2] The name is Greek, and means "thread-weaver" or "linen maker".[3]

Linyphia
Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present
Linyphia species
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Subfamily: Linyphiinae
Genus: Linyphia
Latreille, 1804[1]
Type species
Araneus triangularis
Clerck, 1757
Species

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Species

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As of May 2021 it contains seventy-eight species, found in Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Panama, Peru, Russia, Samoa, Sweden, Switzerland, São Tomé and Príncipe, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States:[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Linyphia Latreille, 1804". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  2. ^ Latreille, P. A. (1804). "Tableau methodique des Insectes". Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 24: 129–295.
  3. ^ "Genus Linyphia". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Paquin, Pierre; Buckle, Donald J. (2001). Contributions à la connaissance des Araignées (Araneae) d'Amérique du Nord. Fabreries, Supplément 10. Association des entomologistes amateurs du Québec inc. (AEAQ).
  5. ^ Petrunkevitch, Alexander (1911). "A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, etc". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 29: 1–791.
  6. ^ a b Jung, Albert; Roth, Vincent (1974). "Spiders of the Chiricahua Mountain area, Cochise Co. , Arizona". Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science. 9 (1): 29–34. doi:10.2307/40021934. JSTOR 40021934.
  7. ^ Paquin; et al. (2010). "Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Canada and Alaska". Zootaxa. 2461: 1–170. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2461.1.1.
  8. ^ Hentz, Nicholas (1850). "Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States". Boston Journal of Natural History. 6: 18–35, 271–295.
  9. ^ Thorell, Tamerlan (1877). "Descriptions of the Araneae collected in Colorado in 1875, by A. S. Packard Jr., M. D.". Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey. 3: 477–529.
  10. ^ Chamberlin, Ralph; Gertsch, Willis (1928). "Notes on spiders from southeastern Utah". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 41: 175–188.
  11. ^ Jennings, Daniel T.; Catley, Kefyn M.; Graham, Frank (2002). "Linyphia triangularis, a Palearctic spider (Araneae, Linyphiidae) new to North America". Journal of Arachnology. 30 (3): 455–460. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0455:LTAPSA]2.0.CO;2.