Gonatium Menge, 1868

Irfan, Muhammad, Zhang, Chang-Cheng, Cai, Yu-Jun & Zhang, Zhi-Sheng, 2025, Four new species of Linyphiidae spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Jiangjin District of Chongqing, China, Zootaxa 5647 (5), pp. 435-450 : 436

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5647.5.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C2FB0518-6D1A-491B-B64C-AFDB289DEAC2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15820306

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1A36DE25-4B4E-FF9D-D2AD-F9B8766971CE

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scientific name

Gonatium Menge, 1868
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Genus Gonatium Menge, 1868 View in CoL (iñeǥ)

Type species. Gonatium cheliferum Menge, 1868 View in CoL ; gender neuter.

Remark. Genus Gonatium comprises 20 species (one of them known only from males) known in Kenya (misplaced in this genus, incertae sedis) and across the Holarctic, of which two species have been reported from China (Hebei, Gansu) (WSC 2025). Millidge (1981) conducted a comprehensive revision of the genus Gonatium , confirming its monophyly through synapomorphic genital and somatic characters.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Linyphiidae

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