Linyphia Distribution
Linyphia is found on all continents except Antarctica.
Species
As of January 2026 [ update]
L. adstricta (Keyserling , 1886) – United States L. albipunctata O. Pickard-Cambridge , 1885Pakistan L. alpicola van Helsdingen, 1969 – Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria)L. armata (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil L. bicuspis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico L. bifasciata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Costa Rica L. bisignata (Banks , 1909) – Costa RicaL. calcarifera (Keyserling, 1886) – Panama , Colombia L. catalina Gertsch , 1951L. chiridota (Thorell , 1895) – Myanmar , Thailand L. clara (Keyserling, 1891) – BrazilL. confinis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – Guatemala L. consanguinea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – Pakistan, India ?L. cylindrata (Keyserling, 1891) – BrazilL. decorata (Keyserling, 1891) – BrazilL. duplicata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico, GuatemalaL. eiseni Banks, 1898 – MexicoL. falculifera (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Costa RicaL. ferentaria (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru L. gaoshidongensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 – China L. horaea (Keyserling, 1886) – ColombiaL. hortensis Sundevall , 1830Turkey , Caucasus , Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan , Iran , Central AsiaL. hospita (Keyserling, 1886) – ColombiaL. hui Hu, 2001 – ChinaL. lambda (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – GuatemalaL. lehmanni Simon , 1903Argentina L. leucosternon White, 1841 – BrazilL. limatula Simon, 1904 – Chile L. limbata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico, GuatemalaL. linzhiensis Hu, 2001 – ChinaL. longiceps (Keyserling, 1891) – BrazilL. longispina (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – MexicoL. ludibunda (Keyserling, 1886) – PeruL. lurida (Keyserling, 1886) – ColombiaL. maculosa (Banks, 1909) – Costa RicaL. maura Thorell, 1875 – Portugal , Spain , France , Italy (Sardinia), Morocco , Algeria , Greece , Cyprus L. melanoprocta Mello-Leitão , 1944L. menyuanensis Hu, 2001 – ChinaL. mimonti Simon, 1885 – Italy (incl. Sicily), Albania , Greece (incl. Crete), Lebanon , Israel L. monticolens Roewer , 1942L. nepalensis Wunderlich , 1983Nepal L. nitens Urquhart, 1893 – Australia (Tasmania)L. obesa Thorell, 1875 – Sweden L. obscurella Roewer, 1942 – BrazilL. octopunctata (Chamberlin & Ivie , 1936) – PanamaL. oligochronia (Keyserling, 1886) – PeruL. orophila Thorell, 1877 – United StatesL. pengdangensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 – ChinaL. peruana (Keyserling, 1886) – PeruL. phaeochorda Rainbow, 1920 – Australia (Norfolk Is.)L. phyllophora Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra)L. polita Blackwall , 1870L. postica (Banks, 1909) – Costa RicaL. rita Gertsch, 1951 – United StatesL. rubella Keyserling, 1886 – PeruL. rubriceps (Keyserling, 1891) – BrazilL. rustica (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – MexicoL. sagana Dönitz & Strand , 1906 – Japan L. sikkimensis Tikader , 1970India L. songziyuanensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2025 – ChinaL. subluteae Urquhart, 1893 – Australia (Tasmania)L. tauphora Chamberlin, 1928 – United StatesL. tenuipalpis Simon, 1884 – Europe, Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)L. textrix Walckenaer , 1841L. triangularis (Clerck , 1757) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Kazakhstan, China. Introduced to Canada , United StatesL. triangularoides Schenkel , 1936L. tuasivia Marples, 1955 – Samoa , Cook Islands (Aitutaki)L. tubernaculofaciens Hingston, 1932 – Guyana L. virgata (Keyserling, 1886) – PeruL. yangmingensis Yin, 2012 – China
Further reading
Chamberlin, Ralph; Gertsch, Willis (1928). "Notes on spiders from southeastern Utah". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . 41 : 175– 188. Thorell, Tamerlan (1877). "Descriptions of the Araneae collected in Colorado in 1875, by A. S. Packard Jr., M. D.". Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey . 3 : 477– 529. Jennings, Daniel T.; Catley, Kefyn M.; Graham, Frank (2002). "Linyphia triangularis, a Palearctic spider (Araneae, Linyphiidae) new to North America" . Journal of Arachnology . 30 (3): 455– 460. doi :10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[ 0455:LTAPSA] 2.0.CO; 2 . Hentz, Nicholas (1850). "Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States". Boston Journal of Natural History . 6 : 18– 35, 271– 295. Jung, Albert; Roth, Vincent (1974). "Spiders of the Chiricahua Mountain area, Cochise Co., Arizona". Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science . 9 (1): 29– 34. doi :10.2307/40021934 . JSTOR 40021934 . Paquin, Pierre; Buckle, Donald J. (2001). Contributions à la connaissance des Araignées (Araneae) d'Amérique du Nord. Fabreries, Supplément 10 . Association des entomologistes amateurs du Québec inc. (AEAQ). Paquin; et al. (2010). "Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Canada and Alaska". Zootaxa . 2461 : 1– 170. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.2461.1.1 . Petrunkevitch, Alexander (1911). "A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, etc". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 29 : 1– 791.-001.jpg)
