| Microlinyphia | |
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| M. pusilla | |
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| male M. sterilis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Microlinyphia Gerhardt, 19281 |
| Type species | |
| Linyphia pusilla Sundevall, 1830
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| Species | |
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11, see text | |
| Synonyms1 | |
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Microlinyphia is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by U. Gerhardt in 1928.4
Species
As of October 2025, this genus includes thirteen species and one subspecies:1
- Microlinyphia aethiopica (Tullgren, 1910) – East Africa
- Microlinyphia cylindriformis Jocqué, 1985 – Comoros
- Microlinyphia dana (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943) – Alaska, Canada, United States
- Microlinyphia delesserti (Caporiacco, 1949) – Tanzania, Uganda, DR Congo
- Microlinyphia impigra (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) – North America, Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
- Microlinyphia johnsoni (Blackwall, 1859) – Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands
- Microlinyphia mandibulata (Emerton, 1882) – Alaska, Canada, United States
- M. m. punctata (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943) – Canada, United States
- Microlinyphia pusilla (Sundevall, 1830) – North America, Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, Pakistan, India, China, Mongolia, Japan. Introduced to St. Helena (type species)
- Microlinyphia rehaiensis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 – China, Vietnam
- Microlinyphia simoni van Helsdingen, 1970 – Madagascar
- Microlinyphia spiralis Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 – China
- Microlinyphia sterilis (Pavesi, 1883) – Central, east and southern Africa. Introduced to China
- Microlinyphia zhejiangensis (Chen, 1991) – China
References
References
- "Gen. Microlinyphia Gerhardt, 1928". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-18.
- 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.