Agyneta

Agyneta
female A. habra
male A. natalensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Agyneta
Hull, 1911
Type species
A. decora
Species

203, see text

Synonyms

Agyneta is a genus of dwarf spiders (family Linyphiidae) that was first described by J. E. Hull in 1911.

Species

A. conigera

As of October 2025, this genus includes 203 species and one subspecies:

The World Spider Catalogue documents the following names as nomina dubia, meaning that they are of unknown or dubious application.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Gen. Agyneta Hull, 1911". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-18.
  2. ↑ Saaristo, M. I. (1973). "Taxonomical analysis of the type-species of Agyneta, Anomalaria, Meioneta, Aprolagus, and Syedrula (Araneae, Linyphiidae)". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 10: 461.
  3. ↑ Bristowe, W. S. (1941). The comity of spiders. p. 516.
  4. ↑ Crawford, R. L. (1988). "An annotated checklist of the spiders of Washington". Burke Museum Contributions in Anthropology and Natural History. 5: 18.
  5. 1 2 Dupérré, N. (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the spider genera Agyneta and Tennesseelum (Araneae, Linyphiidae) of North America north of Mexico with a study of the embolic division within Micronetinae sensu Saaristo & Tanasevitch 1996". Zootaxa. 3674: 8. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3674.1.1.
  6. ↑ Hull, J. E. (1911). "Papers on spiders". Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland. 3 (3): 573–590.