Glenognatha is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.[3] It was considerably revised in 2016.[4]
Species
As of March 2021 it contains thirty-six species, found in North America, Central America, Asia, South America, the Caribbean, Africa, on the French Polynesian Islands, and Saint Helena:[1]
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Glenognatha argenteoguttata (Berland, 1935) – Marquesas Is.
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Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Niger, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia. Introduced to Caribbean, Ecuador (mainland, Galapagos Is.), Brazil, St. Helena
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Glenognatha australis (Keyserling, 1883) – Ecuador to Argentina
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Glenognatha boraceia Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Brazil
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Glenognatha caaguara Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Brazil
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Glenognatha camisea Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Peru
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Glenognatha caparu Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia
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Glenognatha caporiaccoi Platnick, 1993 – Guyana
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Glenognatha chamberlini (Berland, 1942) – French Polynesia (Austral Is.)
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Glenognatha dentata (Zhu & Wen, 1978) – China, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam, Philippines
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Glenognatha emertoni Simon, 1887 (type) – USA
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Glenognatha florezi Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Colombia
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Glenognatha foxi (McCook, 1894) – Canada to Panama
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Glenognatha ganeshi (Bodkhe, Manthen & Tanikawa, 2014) — India
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Glenognatha gaujoni Simon, 1895 – Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil
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Glenognatha globosa (Petrunkevitch, 1925) – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
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Glenognatha gloriae (Petrunkevitch, 1930) – Puerto Rico
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Glenognatha gouldi Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – USA, Mexico
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Glenognatha heleios Hormiga, 1990 – USA
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Glenognatha hirsutissima (Berland, 1935) – Marquesas Is.
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Glenognatha iviei Levi, 1980 – USA
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Glenognatha januari Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Brazil
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Glenognatha lacteovittata (Mello-Leitão, 1944) – Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay
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Glenognatha ledouxi Dierkens, 2016 – French Polynesia (Society Is.: Tahiti)
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Glenognatha mendezi Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador
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Glenognatha minuta Banks, 1898 – Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Rep.
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Glenognatha nigromaculata (Berland, 1933) – Marquesas Is.
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Glenognatha osawai Baba & Tanikawa, 2018 – Japan
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Glenognatha paullula Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2020 — India
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Glenognatha patriceae Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Colombia
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Glenognatha phalangiops (Berland, 1942) – French Polynesia (Austral Is.)
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Glenognatha smilodon Bosmans & Bosselaers, 1994 – Cameroon
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Glenognatha spherella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Mexico to Peru
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Glenognatha tangi (Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003) – China, Myanmar
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Glenognatha timbira Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Brazil
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Glenognatha vivianae Cabra-García & Brescovit, 2016 – Brazil
In synonymy:
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G. atlantica (Holm, 1969) = Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)
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G. centralis Chamberlin, 1925 = Glenognatha minuta Banks, 1898
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G. hawigtenera (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) = Glenognatha dentata (Zhu & Wen, 1978)
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G. maelfaiti Baert, 1987 = Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)
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G. mira Bryant, 1945 = Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)
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G. montana (Simon, 1897) = Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)
See also
References
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^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Glenognatha Simon, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
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^ a b Levi, H. W. (1980). "The orb-weaver genus Mecynogea, the subfamily Metinae and the genera Pachygnatha, Glenognatha and Azilia of the subfamily Tetragnathinae north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 149: 64.
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^ Simon, E. (1887). "Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 7 (6): 193–195.
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^ Cabra-García, J. J.; Brescovit, A. D. (2016). "Revision and phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider genus Glenognatha Simon, 1887 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)". Zootaxa. 4069 (1): 45. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4069.1.1. PMID 27395905.
