Biology:Spheropistha
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Short description: Genus of spiders
| Spheropistha | |
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| Female Spheropistha melanosoma | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Spheropistha Yaginuma, 1957[1] |
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| S. melanosoma Yaginuma, 1957
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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]
- Spheropistha huangsangensis (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) – China
- Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1957 (type) – Japan , Korea?
- Spheropistha miyashitai (Tanikawa, 1998) – Japan
- Spheropistha nigroris (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000) – Taiwan
- Spheropistha orbita (Zhu, 1998) – China
- Spheropistha rhomboides (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) – China
- Spheropistha xinhua Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 – China
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gen. Spheropistha Yaginuma, 1957. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3539. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
- ↑ Yaginuma, T. (1957). "Two new conopisthine spiders from Japan". Acta Arachnologica 15: 11–16. doi:10.2476/asjaa.15.11.
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. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x.
- Yin, C. M. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha. pp. 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 (2): 183–192. doi:10.2476/asjaa.50.183.
- Yoshida, H. (2009), "Uloboridae, Theridiidae, Ctenidae", in Ono, H., The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species
Wikidata ☰ Q5303488 entry
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