Kaestneria is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by H. Wiehle in 1956.

Species

As of May 2019[update] it contains eight species, found in Canada, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, and the United States:

  • 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