Sudesna

Sudesna
An unknown species of Sudesna located in Thailand
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Dictynidae
Genus: Sudesna
Lehtinen, 1967
Type species
Dictyna hedini
Schenkel, 1936
Species

17, see text

Sudesna is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders that belongs to the family Dictynidae.

Distribution

Members of this genus are found distributed Australia, Southern, Southeast and east Asia. The majority of these species, around nine, have been found to be exclusively inhabiting China. Despite the Xizang province of China being a hotspot for biodiversity including spiders, the only species from this genus is Sudesna flavipes.

Taxonomy

This genus was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967 with the type species being Sudensa hedini.

Species

As of April 2026, this genus currently contains 17 described species. A list of them can be found below:

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Sudesna Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2026-04-13.
  2. 1 2 Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.
  3. 1 2 Wang, Lu-Yu; Zhang, Zhi-Sheng; Xu, Yong-Qiang (2026-04-30). "Review of the mesh-web spider genus Sudesna Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae, Dictynidae) from Xizang, China". ZooKeys (1278): 287–304. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1278.187037. ISSN 1313-2970.