''Dolichognatha'' is a

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and

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long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by

Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an England, English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider. Life and wor ...

in 1869. Originally placed with the

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, it was transferred to the

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in 1967, and to the

Tetragnathidae Long-jawed orb weavers or long jawed spiders (Tetragnathidae) are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Anton Menge in 1866. They have elongated bodies, legs, and chelicerae, and build small orb webs with an open hub with few, wide-se ...

in 1981.

Species

it contains thirty-two widely distributed species: *'' Dolichognatha aethiopica'' Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa *'' Dolichognatha albida'' (

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, 1895) – Sri Lanka, Thailand *'' Dolichognatha baforti'' (Legendre, 1967) – Congo *'' Dolichognatha bannaensis'' Wang, Zhang & Peng, 2020 — China *'' Dolichognatha comorensis'' (

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& Krause, 1993) –

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*'' Dolichognatha cygnea'' (Simon, 1893) – Venezuela *'' Dolichognatha deelemanae'' Smith, 2008 –

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*'' Dolichognatha ducke'' Lise, 1993 – Brazil *'' Dolichognatha erwini'' Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil *'' Dolichognatha incanescens'' (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Borneo), New Guinea, Australia (

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) *'' 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 (

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) *'' 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 (

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) *'' 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) –

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*'' 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)

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* Araneomorphae genera Cosmopolitan spiders Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Tetragnathidae {{Tetragnathidae-stub

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