Oedothorax

Oedothorax
	O. apicatus, male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Oedothorax; Bertkau, 1883
Type species
	O. gibbosus; (Blackwall, 1841)
Species
	38, see text

Oedothorax is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by A. Förster & Philipp Bertkau in 1883.

Species

As of June 2025^[update] it contains thirty-nine species and one subspecies:

O. agrestis (Blackwall, 1853) – Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
- Oedothorax agrestis longipes (Simon, 1884) – Switzerland
O. annulatus Wunderlich, 1974 – Nepal
O. apicatus (Blackwall, 1850) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China
O. banksi Strand, 1906 – USA (Alaska)
O. biantu Zhao & Li, 2014 – China
O. bifoveatus Tanasevitch, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo), Indonesia (Java)
O. cascadeus Chamberlin, 1949 – USA
O. cheruthoniensis Domichan & Sunil Jose, 2021 – India
O. collinus Ma & Zhu, 1991 – China
O. cruciferoides Tanasevitch, 2020 – Nepal
O. cunur Tanasevitch, 2015 – India
O. dubius Caporiacco, 1935 – India (Karakorum)
O. fuscus (Blackwall, 1834) – Azores, Europe, North Africa
O. gibbifer (Kulczyński, 1882) – Europe
O. gibbosus (Blackwall, 1841) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
O. howardi Petrunkevitch, 1925 – USA
O. japonicus Kishida, 1910 – Japan
O. khasi Tanasevitch, 2017 – India
O. kodaikanal Tanasevitch, 2015 – India
O. limatus Crosby, 1905 – USA
O. mangsima Tanasevitch, 2020 – Nepal
O. meghalaya Tanasevitch, 2015 – India
O. meridionalis Tanasevitch, 1987 – Caucasus, Russia (Caucasus, Central Asia), Iran, Central Asia
O. myanmar Tanasevitch, 2017 – Myanmar
O. nazareti Scharff, 1989 – Ethiopia
O. paludigena Simon, 1926 – Spain, France (incl. Corsica), Italy (incl. Sardinia), Albania, Greece
O. paracymbialis Tanasevitch, 2015 – India
O. retusus (Westring, 1851) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to north-eastern Siberia), Kazakhstan, China, India?
O. sexmaculatus Saito & Ono, 2001 – Japan
O. sohra Tanasevitch, 2020 – Nepal
O. stylus Tanasevitch, 2015 – India
O. simianensis Irfan, Zhang, Cai & Zhang, 2025 – China (Chongqing)
O. tingitanus (Simon, 1884) – Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
O. trilineatus Saito, 1934 – Japan
O. trilobatus (Banks, 1896) – USA, Canada, Russia (Kamchatka)
O. unciger Tanasevitch, 2020 – Nepal
O. uncus Tanasevitch, 2015 – India
O. uncus Domichan & Sunil Jose, 2021 – India

References

1 2 "Gen. Oedothorax Bertkau, 1883". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
↑ Förster, A.; Bertkau, P. (1883). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Spinnenfauna der Rheinprovinz". Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens. 40: 205–278.
↑ 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.

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[wsc-1] 1 2 "Gen. Oedothorax Bertkau, 1883". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2 June 2022.

[Förs1883-2] Förster, A.; Bertkau, P. (1883). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Spinnenfauna der Rheinprovinz". Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens. 40: 205–278.

[fix1-3] 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.

Oedothorax

O. apicatus, male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Oedothorax Bertkau, 1883
Type species
O. gibbosus (Blackwall, 1841)
Species
38, see text