Kaestneria

Kaestneria
Female Kaestneria dorsalis in Finland
Male Kaestneria dorsalis in Finland
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Kaestneria Wiehle, 1956[1]
Type species
K. dorsalis (Wider, 1834)
Species
8, see text

Kaestneria is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by H. Wiehle in 1956.^[2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains eight species, found in Canada, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, and the United States:^[1]

• Kaestneria bicultrata Chen & Yin, 2000 – China, Indonesia (Sumatra, Belitung Is.)
• Kaestneria dorsalis (Wider, 1834) (type) – Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
• Kaestneria longissima (Zhu & Wen, 1983) – Russia (Far East), China
• Kaestneria minima Locket, 1982 – Malaysia
• Kaestneria pullata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1863) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), China, Mongolia, Japan
• Kaestneria rufula (Hackman, 1954) – USA, Canada
• Kaestneria torrentum (Kulczyński, 1882) – Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine
• Kaestneria valentissima Irfan & Peng, 2018 – China

Female Kaestneria pullata

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Kaestneria Wiehle, 1956". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
2. Wiehle, H. (1956). "Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). 28. Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen". Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. 44: 1–337.