Dolichognatha is a genus of tropical and subtropical long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869.[6] Originally placed with the Archaeidae,[6] it was transferred to the Araneidae in 1967,[7] and to the Tetragnathidae in 1981.[2]
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As of March 2021[update] it contains thirty-two widely distributed species:[1]
- Dolichognatha aethiopica Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa
- Dolichognatha albida (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka, Thailand
- Dolichognatha baforti (Legendre, 1967) – Congo
- Dolichognatha bannaensis Wang, Zhang & Peng, 2020 — China
- Dolichognatha comorensis (Schmidt & Krause, 1993) – Comoros
- Dolichognatha cygnea (Simon, 1893) – Venezuela
- Dolichognatha deelemanae Smith, 2008 – Borneo
- Dolichognatha ducke Lise, 1993 – Brazil
- Dolichognatha erwini Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
- Dolichognatha incanescens (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Borneo), New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
- Dolichognatha junlitjri (Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2014) – Philippines
- Dolichognatha kampa Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
- Dolichognatha kratochvili (Lessert, 1938) – Congo
- Dolichognatha lodiculafaciens (Hingston, 1932) – Guyana
- Dolichognatha lonarensis Bodkhe & Manthen, 2015 – India
- Dolichognatha longiceps (Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar, Thailand
- Dolichognatha mandibularis (Thorell, 1894) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Dolichognatha mapia Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
- Dolichognatha maturaca Lise, 1993 – Brazil
- Dolichognatha minuscula (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Guyana
- Dolichognatha nietneri O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 (type) – Sri Lanka
- Dolichognatha pentagona (Hentz, 1850) – USA to Venezuela
- Dolichognatha petiti (Simon, 1884) – Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
- Dolichognatha pinheiral Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil
- Dolichognatha proserpina (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
- Dolichognatha quadrituberculata (Keyserling, 1883) – Peru
- Dolichognatha quinquemucronata (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka
- Dolichognatha raveni Smith, 2008 – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
- Dolichognatha richardi (Marples, 1955) – Samoa
- Dolichognatha spinosa (Petrunkevitch, 1939) – Panama
- Dolichognatha tigrina Simon, 1893 – Caribbean, northern South America
- Dolichognatha umbrophila Tanikawa, 1991 – Taiwan, Japan (Okinawa Is.)
In synonymy:
- D. tuberculata (Keyserling, 1893) = Dolichognatha pentagona (Hentz, 1850)
Levi, H. W. (1981). "The American orb-weaver genera Dolichognatha and Tetragnatha north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae, Tetragnathinae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 149: 277. Dimitrov, D.; Álvarez-Padilla, F.; Hormiga, G. (2010). "On the phylogenetic placement of the spider genus Atimiosa Simon, 1895, and the circumscription of Dolichognatha O.P.-Cambridge, 1869 (Tetragnathidae, Araneae)". American Museum Novitates. 3683: 6. Smith, H. M. (2008). "Synonymy of Homalopoltys (Araneae: Araneidae) with the genus Dolichognatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) and descriptions of two new species". Zootaxa. 1775: 10.
Kallal, R. J.; Hormiga, G. (2018). "An expanded molecular phylogeny of metaine spiders (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with description of new taxa from Taiwan and the Philippines". Invertebrate Systematics. 32 (2): 414.
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1869). "Catalogue of a collection of Ceylon Araneida lately received from Mr J. Nietner, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. I". Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 10: 373–397. 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: 289.
