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Microlinyphia

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Microlinyphia is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by U. Gerhardt in 1928.^[4]

As of May 2021 it contains eleven species and one subspecies:^[1]

Microlinyphia aethiopica (Tullgren, 1910) – East Africa
Microlinyphia cylindriformis Jocqué, 1985 – Comoros
Microlinyphia dana (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943) – Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia^[5]
Microlinyphia delesserti (Caporiacco, 1949) – Tanzania, Uganda, Congo
Microlinyphia impigra (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) – North America, Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
Microlinyphia johnsoni (Blackwall, 1859) – Madeira, Canary Is.
Microlinyphia mandibulata (Emerton, 1882) – USA
- Microlinyphia m. punctata (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943) – USA, Canada
Microlinyphia pusilla (Sundevall, 1830) (type) – North America (Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nunavut, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory),^[5] Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Japan
Microlinyphia simoni van Helsdingen, 1970 – Madagascar
Microlinyphia sterilis (Pavesi, 1883) – Central, East, Southern Africa; China
Microlinyphia zhejiangensis (Chen, 1991) – China

^ ^a ^b ^c "Gen. Microlinyphia Gerhardt, 1928". World Spider Catalog Version 22.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
^ Helsdingen, P. J. van (1970). "A reclassification of the species of Linyphia based on the functioning of the genitalia (Araneida, Linyphiidae), II". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 111: 4.
^ Wiehle, H. (1956). "Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). 28. Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen". Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. 44: 297.
^ Gerhardt, U. (1928). "Biologische Studien an griechischen, corsischen und deutschen Spinnen". Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere. 10 (4): 576–675. doi:10.1007/BF00419324. S2CID 42362217.
^ ^a ^b "Genus Microlinyphia". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-16.