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Tetragnathidae  Menge, 1866 / Glenognatha  Simon, 1887   1 species

Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)

Description
Distribution
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Egypt, Niger, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, DR Congo, South Africa. Introduced to Caribbean, Ecuador, Galapagos, Brazil, St. Helena, Seychelles
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Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) |||
References

Baert L (1987) Spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Part IV. Miscellaneous families II. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 57: 141-155 pdf

Baert L, Maelfait J-P, Desender K, Hendrickx F, Dekoninck W, Berthet M, Bouckaert K, Caudron J, Leclercq M (2023) Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188 pdf

Bosmans R, Bosselaers J (1994) Spiders of the genera Pachygnatha, Dyschiriognatha and Glenognatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae), with a revision of the Afrotropical species. Zoologica Scripta 23: 325-352 pdf

Cabra-García J, Brescovit A D (2016) Revision and phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider genus Glenognatha Simon, 1887 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa 4069: 1-183 pdf

Dippenaar-Schoeman A S, Haddad C R, Foord S H, Lotz L N (2023a) The Tetragnathidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 50 pp. pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Holm Å (1969) A new tetragnathid species from the island St-Helena (Araneae). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 80: 62-66 pdf

Saaristo M I (2010) Araneae. In: Gerlach J & Marusik Y M (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles Islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
24-01-2025 Image insert
14-10-2023 Image insert
24-03-2022 Distribution update Detail