| Kaestneria | |
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| Female Kaestneria dorsalis in Finland | |
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| Male Kaestneria dorsalis in Finland | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata | 
| Class: | Arachnida | 
| Order: | Araneae | 
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae | 
| Family: | Linyphiidae | 
| Genus: | Kaestneria Wiehle, 1956[1]  | 
| Type species | |
| K. dorsalis (Wider, 1834)  | |
| Species | |
| 
 8, see text  | |
Kaestneria is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by H. Wiehle in 1956.[2]
Species
As of May 2019 it contains eight species, found in Canada, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, and the United States:[1]
- Kaestneria bicultrata Chen & Yin, 2000 – China, Indonesia (Sumatra, Belitung Is.)
 - Kaestneria dorsalis (Wider, 1834) (type) – Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
 - Kaestneria longissima (Zhu & Wen, 1983) – Russia (Far East), China
 - Kaestneria minima Locket, 1982 – Malaysia
 - Kaestneria pullata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1863) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), China, Mongolia, Japan
 - Kaestneria rufula (Hackman, 1954) – USA, Canada
 - Kaestneria torrentum (Kulczyński, 1882) – Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine
 - Kaestneria valentissima Irfan & Peng, 2018 – China
 

Female Kaestneria pullata
See also
References
- 1 2 "Gen. Kaestneria Wiehle, 1956". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
 - ↑ Wiehle, H. (1956). "Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). 28. Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen". Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. 44: 1–337.
 
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