Diplocentria

Diplocentria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Diplocentria Hull, 1911[1]
Type species
D. bidentata (Emerton, 1882)
Species
8, see text
Synonyms[1]
Microcentria Schenkel, 1925[2] Scotoussa Bishop & Crosby, 1938[3] Smodigoides Crosby & Bishop, 1936[3]

Diplocentria is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by J. E. Hull in 1911.[4]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains eight species:[1]

• Diplocentria bidentata (Emerton, 1882) (type) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
• Diplocentria changajensis Wunderlich, 1995 – Mongolia
• Diplocentria forsslundi Holm, 1939 – Sweden
• Diplocentria hiberna (Barrows, 1945) – USA
• Diplocentria mediocris (Simon, 1884) – Europe
• Diplocentria perplexa (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1939) – USA, Canada
• Diplocentria rectangulata (Emerton, 1915) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
• Diplocentria retinax (Crosby & Bishop, 1936) – USA, Canada

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species

References

1. "Gen. Diplocentria Hull, 1911". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
2. Wunderlich, J. (1970). "Zur Synonymie einiger Spinnen-Gattungen und -Arten aus Europa und Nordamerika (Arachnida: Araneae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 51: 407.
3. Holm, Å. (1945). "Zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Torneträskgebietes". Arkiv för Zoologi. 36: 19.
4. Hull, J. E. (1911). "Papers on spiders". Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland. 3 (3): 573–590.