title: Kaestneria
text: # Kaestneria
  
  Kaestneria is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by H. Wiehle in 1956.
  
  ## 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:
  
  * 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
  