Linyphia

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = Linyphiidae_-_Linyphia_sp._(male)-001.jpg | image_caption = ''Linyphia'' species | image2 = | image2_caption = | fossil_range = {{Fossil range| Palaeogene| Present}} | taxon = Linyphia | authority = Latreille, 1804<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''Araneus triangularis'' | type_species_authority = Clerck, 1757 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 70, see text | range_map = Linyphia range map.svg | range_map_caption = blue: reported countries (WSC) }}

'''''Linyphia''''' is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1804.<ref name=Latr1804 /> The name is Greek, and means "thread-weaver" or "linen maker".<ref name=bugguide />

==Distribution== ''Linyphia'' is found on all continents except Antarctica.<ref name=wsc />

==Species== {{as of|2026|1}}, this genus includes seventy species:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''L. adstricta'' (Keyserling, 1886) – United States * ''L. albipunctata'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – Pakistan * ''L. alpicola'' van Helsdingen, 1969 – Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria) * ''L. armata'' (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil * ''L. bicuspis'' (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico * ''L. bifasciata'' (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Costa Rica * ''L. bisignata'' (Banks, 1909) – Costa Rica * ''L. calcarifera'' (Keyserling, 1886) – Panama, Colombia * ''L. catalina'' Gertsch, 1951 – United States * ''L. chiridota'' (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar, Thailand * ''L. clara'' (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil * ''L. confinis'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – Guatemala * ''L. consanguinea'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – Pakistan, India? * ''L. cylindrata'' (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil * ''L. decorata'' (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil * ''L. duplicata'' (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico, Guatemala * ''L. eiseni'' Banks, 1898 – Mexico * ''L. falculifera'' (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Costa Rica * ''L. ferentaria'' (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru * ''L. gaoshidongensis'' Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 – China * ''L. horaea'' (Keyserling, 1886) – Colombia * ''L. hortensis'' Sundevall, 1830 – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia * ''L. hospita'' (Keyserling, 1886) – Colombia * ''L. hui'' Hu, 2001 – China * ''L. lambda'' (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Guatemala * ''L. lehmanni'' Simon, 1903 – Argentina * ''L. leucosternon'' White, 1841 – Brazil * ''L. limatula'' Simon, 1904 – Chile * ''L. limbata'' (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico, Guatemala * ''L. linzhiensis'' Hu, 2001 – China * ''L. longiceps'' (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil * ''L. longispina'' (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico * ''L. ludibunda'' (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru * ''L. lurida'' (Keyserling, 1886) – Colombia * ''L. maculosa'' (Banks, 1909) – Costa Rica * ''L. maura'' Thorell, 1875 – Portugal, Spain, France, Italy (Sardinia), Morocco, Algeria, Greece, Cyprus * ''L. melanoprocta'' Mello-Leitão, 1944 – Argentina * ''L. menyuanensis'' Hu, 2001 – China * ''L. mimonti'' Simon, 1885 – Italy (incl. Sicily), Albania, Greece (incl. Crete), Lebanon, Israel * ''L. monticolens'' Roewer, 1942 – Peru * ''L. nepalensis'' Wunderlich, 1983 – Nepal * ''L. nitens'' Urquhart, 1893 – Australia (Tasmania) * ''L. obesa'' Thorell, 1875 – Sweden * ''L. obscurella'' Roewer, 1942 – Brazil * ''L. octopunctata'' (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) – Panama * ''L. oligochronia'' (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru * ''L. orophila'' Thorell, 1877 – United States * ''L. pengdangensis'' Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 – China * ''L. peruana'' (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru * ''L. phaeochorda'' Rainbow, 1920 – Australia (Norfolk Is.) * ''L. phyllophora'' Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra) * ''L. polita'' Blackwall, 1870 – Italy (Sicily) * ''L. postica'' (Banks, 1909) – Costa Rica * ''L. rita'' Gertsch, 1951 – United States * ''L. rubella'' Keyserling, 1886 – Peru * ''L. rubriceps'' (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil * ''L. rustica'' (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico * ''L. sagana'' Dönitz & Strand, 1906 – Japan * ''L. sikkimensis'' Tikader, 1970 – India * ''L. songziyuanensis'' Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2025 – China * ''L. subluteae'' Urquhart, 1893 – Australia (Tasmania) * ''L. tauphora'' Chamberlin, 1928 – United States * ''L. tenuipalpis'' Simon, 1884 – Europe, Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia) * ''L. textrix'' Walckenaer, 1841 – United States * ''L. triangularis'' (Clerck, 1757) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Kazakhstan, China. Introduced to Canada, United States * ''L. triangularoides'' Schenkel, 1936 – China * ''L. tuasivia'' Marples, 1955 – Samoa, Cook Islands (Aitutaki) * ''L. tubernaculofaciens'' Hingston, 1932 – Guyana * ''L. virgata'' (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru * ''L. yangmingensis'' Yin, 2012 – China {{Div col end}}

==References== <references> <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus-catalog/1585 | title=Gen. Latreille, 1804 | publisher=World Spider Catalog | doi=10.24436/2 | accessdate=2026-01-19}}</ref> <ref name="bugguide">{{cite web| title=Genus Linyphia| publisher=BugGuide| access-date=2019-06-15| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/456576}}</ref> <ref name="Latr1804">{{cite journal| last=Latreille| first=P. A.| year=1804| title=Tableau methodique des Insectes| journal=Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris| pages=129–295| volume=24| author-link=Pierre_André_Latreille}}</ref> </references>

==Further reading== * {{cite journal| title=Notes on spiders from southeastern Utah| first1=Ralph| last1=Chamberlin| first2=Willis| last2=Gertsch| year=1928| journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington| volume=41| pages=175–188}} * {{cite journal| title=Descriptions of the Araneae collected in Colorado in 1875, by A. S. Packard Jr., M. D.| first=Tamerlan| last=Thorell| year=1877| journal=Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey| volume=3| pages=477–529}} * {{cite journal| title=Linyphia triangularis, a Palearctic spider (Araneae, Linyphiidae) new to North America| first1=Daniel T.| last1=Jennings| first2=Kefyn M.| last2=Catley| first3=Frank| last3=Graham| year=2002| journal=Journal of Arachnology| volume=30| issue=3| pages=455–460| doi=10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0455:LTAPSA]2.0.CO;2| url=https://zenodo.org/record/1236351}} * {{cite journal| title=Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States| first=Nicholas| last=Hentz| year=1850| journal=Boston Journal of Natural History| volume=6| pages=18–35, 271–295}} * {{cite journal| last1=Jung| first1=Albert| last2=Roth| first2=Vincent| year=1974| title=Spiders of the Chiricahua Mountain area, Cochise Co., Arizona| journal=Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science| volume=9| issue=1| pages=29–34| doi=10.2307/40021934| jstor=40021934}} * {{cite book| last1=Paquin| first1=Pierre| last2=Buckle| first2=Donald J.| year=2001| title=Contributions à la connaissance des Araignées (Araneae) d'Amérique du Nord. Fabreries, Supplément 10| publisher=Association des entomologistes amateurs du Québec inc. (AEAQ)}} * {{cite journal| last=Paquin| display-authors=etal| year=2010| title=Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Canada and Alaska| journal=Zootaxa| volume=2461| pages=1–170| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2461.1.1}} * {{cite journal| last=Petrunkevitch| first=Alexander| year=1911| title=A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, etc.| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| volume=29| pages=1–791| author-link=Alexander_Petrunkevitch}}

==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}

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