| Cornitibia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Cornitibia Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 20222 |
| Species: | C. simplicithorax
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| Binomial name | |
| Cornitibia simplicithorax (Tanasevitch, 1998)1
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Cornitibia is a monotypic genus of spiders in the family Linyphiidae containing the single species, Cornitibia simplicithorax.1 It is endemic to Nepal, where it was found in Alnus forest along a river in Ilam District.2
The male has a body length of 1.93 mm. The female is unknown.3
Etymology
The genus is named after the tusklike male palpal tibia apophysis, from Latin "cornus" ("horn").2 The species name refers to the unmodified shape of the male carapace.3
References
References
- "Gen. Cornitibia Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 2022". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
- Lin, S. W.; Lopardo, L.; Uhl, G. (2022). "Evolution of nuptial-gift-related male prosomal structures: taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the genus Oedothorax (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 195 (2): 417–584. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab033.
- Tanasevitch, A. V. (1998). "New Oedothorax Bertkau, 1883, from Nepal (Arachnida, Araneae, Linyphiidae)" (PDF). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge. 47: 429–441.