Dolichognatha

Dolichognatha is a genus of tropical and subtropical long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869. Originally placed with the Archaeidae, it was transferred to the Araneidae in 1967, and to the Tetragnathidae in 1981.

==Species== it contains thirty-two widely distributed species: Dolichognatha aethiopica Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa Dolichognatha albida (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka, Thailand Dolichognatha baforti (Legendre, 1967) – Congo Dolichognatha bannaensis Wang, Zhang & Peng, 2020 — China Dolichognatha comorensis (Schmidt & Krause, 1993) – Comoros Dolichognatha cygnea (Simon, 1893) – Venezuela Dolichognatha deelemanae Smith, 2008 – Borneo Dolichognatha ducke Lise, 1993 – Brazil Dolichognatha erwini Brescovit & Cunha, 2001 – Brazil Dolichognatha incanescens (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Borneo), New Guinea, Australia (Queensland) 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 (Sumatra) 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 (Bioko) 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) – Samoa Dolichognatha spinosa (Petrunkevitch, 1939) – Panama Dolichognatha tigrina Simon, 1893 – Caribbean, northern South America Dolichognatha umbrophila Tanikawa, 1991 – Taiwan, Japan (Okinawa Is.)