Spheropistha

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Spheropistha
Spheropistha.melanosoma.female.-.tanikawa.jpg
Female
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Spheropistha
Yaginuma, 1957[1]
Type species
S. melanosoma
Yaginuma, 1957
Species

7, see text

Spheropistha is a genus of Asian comb-footed spiders that was first described by T. Yaginuma in 1957.[2]

Species[]

As of June 2020 it contains seven species, found in Taiwan, Japan, and China:[1]

  • (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004)China
  • Yaginuma, 1957 (type) – Japan, Korea?
  • (Tanikawa, 1998) – Japan
  • (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000)Taiwan
  • (Zhu, 1998) – China
  • (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) – China
  • Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 – China

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Spheropistha Yaginuma, 1957". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  2. ^ Yaginuma, T. (1957). "Two new conopisthine spiders from Japan". Acta Arachnologica. 15: 11–16.

Further reading[]

  • Agnarsson, I. (2004). "Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 141 (4): 447–626.
  • Yin, C. M.; et al. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha. p. 1590.
  • Yin, C. M.; Peng, X. J.; Bao, Y. H. (2004). "Two new species of the genus Argyrodes from China (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Acta Arachnologica Sinica. 13: 1–6.
  • Yoshida, H. (2001). "The genus Rhomphaea (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan, with notes on the subfamily Argyrodinae". Acta Arachnologica. 50: 183–192.
  • Yoshida, H. (2009), "Uloboridae, Theridiidae, Ctenidae", in Ono, H. (ed.), The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species


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