Gonatium
| Gonatium | |
|---|---|
| |
| G. rubens | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Menge, 1868[1] |
| Type species | |
| G. rubens (Blackwall, 1833)
| |
| Species | |
|
20, see text | |
Gonatium is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Anton Menge in 1868.[2]
Species
As of June 2025 it contains twenty species, found in Algeria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Macedonia, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey, and the United States:[1][3]
- Gonatium arimaense Oi, 1960 – Korea, Japan
- Gonatium biimpressum Simon, 1884 – France (Corsica), Italy
- Gonatium cappadocium Millidge, 1981 – Turkey
- Gonatium crassipalpum Bryant, 1933 – USA, Canada
- Gonatium dayense Simon, 1884 – Algeria
- Gonatium ensipotens (Simon, 1881) – Portugal, Spain, France, Italy
- Gonatium geniculosum Simon, 1918 – France
- Gonatium hilare (Thorell, 1875) – Central and southern Europe, Azerbaijan?
- Gonatium japonicum Simon, 1906 – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
- Gonatium nemorivagum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – Southern Europe
- Gonatium nipponicum Millidge, 1981 – Russia (Far East), Japan
- Gonatium occidentale Simon, 1918 – Spain, France, Morocco, Algeria, Israel
- Gonatium orientale Fage, 1931 – Romania, Bulgaria
- Gonatium pacificum Eskov, 1989 – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East)
- Gonatium paradoxum (L. Koch, 1869) – Europe
- Gonatium petrunkewitschi Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
- Gonatium rubellum (Blackwall, 1841) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
- Gonatium rubens (Blackwall, 1833) (type) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Japan
- Gonatium strugaense Drensky, 1929 – Macedonia
- Gonatium tridentatum Irfan, Zhang, Cai & Zhang, 2025 – China (Chongqing)[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Gonatium Menge, 1868". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
- ^ Menge, A. (1868). "Preussische Spinnen. II. Abtheilung". Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig. 2: 153–218.
- ^ a b Irfan, Muhammad; Zhang, Chang-Cheng; Cai, Yu-Jun; Zhang, Zhi-Sheng (2025-06-18). "Four new species of Linyphiidae spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Jiangjin District of Chongqing, China". Zootaxa. 5647 (5): 435–450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5647.5.2. ISSN 1175-5334.