Linyphia

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

Distribution

Linyphia is found on all continents except Antarctica.

Species

, this genus includes seventy species:

L. adstricta – United States
L. albipunctata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – Pakistan
L. alpicola van Helsdingen, 1969 – Alps
L. armata – Brazil
L. bicuspis – Mexico
L. bifasciata – Costa Rica
L. bisignata – Costa Rica
L. calcarifera – Panama, Colombia
L. catalina Gertsch, 1951 – United States
L. chiridota – Myanmar, Thailand
L. clara – Brazil
L. confinis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – Guatemala
L. consanguinea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – Pakistan, India?
L. cylindrata – Brazil
L. decorata – Brazil
L. duplicata – Mexico, Guatemala
L. eiseni Banks, 1898 – Mexico
L. falculifera – Costa Rica
L. ferentaria – Peru
L. gaoshidongensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 – China
L. horaea – Colombia
L. hortensis Sundevall, 1830 – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia
L. hospita – Colombia
L. hui Hu, 2001 – China
L. lambda – Guatemala
L. lehmanni Simon, 1903 – Argentina
L. leucosternon White, 1841 – Brazil
L. limatula Simon, 1904 – Chile
L. limbata – Mexico, Guatemala
L. linzhiensis Hu, 2001 – China
L. longiceps – Brazil
L. longispina – Mexico
L. ludibunda – Peru
L. lurida – Colombia
L. maculosa – Costa Rica
L. maura Thorell, 1875 – Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Morocco, Algeria, Greece, Cyprus
L. melanoprocta Cândido Firmino [de Mello-Leitão|Mello-Leitão], 1944 – Argentina
L. menyuanensis Hu, 2001 – China
L. mimonti Simon, 1885 – Italy, Albania, Greece, Lebanon, Israel
L. monticolens Roewer, 1942 – Peru
L. nepalensis Wunderlich, 1983 – Nepal
L. nitens Urquhart, 1893 – Australia
L. obesa Thorell, 1875 – Sweden
L. obscurella Roewer, 1942 – Brazil
L. octopunctata – Panama
L. oligochronia – Peru
L. orophila Thorell, 1877 – United States
L. pengdangensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 – China
L. peruana – Peru
L. phaeochorda Rainbow, 1920 – Australia
L. phyllophora Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia
L. polita Blackwall, 1870 – Italy
L. postica – Costa Rica
L. rita Gertsch, 1951 – United States
L. rubella Keyserling, 1886 – Peru
L. rubriceps – Brazil
L. rustica – Mexico
L. sagana Dönitz & Strand, 1906 – Japan
L. sikkimensis Tikader, 1970 – India
L. songziyuanensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2025 – China
L. subluteae Urquhart, 1893 – Australia
L. tauphora Chamberlin, 1928 – United States
L. tenuipalpis Simon, 1884 – Europe, Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia
L. textrix Walckenaer, 1841 – United States
L. triangularis – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, China. Introduced to Canada, United States
L. triangularoides Schenkel, 1936 – China
L. tuasivia Marples, 1955 – Samoa, Cook Islands
L. tubernaculofaciens Hingston, 1932 – Guyana
L. virgata – Peru
L. yangmingensis Yin, 2012 – China