Biology:Theonoe (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Theonoe
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Theonoe
Simon, 1881[1]
Type species
T. minutissima
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879)
Species

6, see text

Theonoe is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1881.[2]

Species

(As of June 2020) it contains six species:[1]

  • Theonoe africana Caporiacco, 1947 – Tanzania
  • Theonoe formivora (Walckenaer, 1841)France
  • Theonoe major Denis, 1961Spain
  • Theonoe minutissima (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879) (type) – Europe
  • Theonoe sola Thaler & Steinberger, 1988Germany , Austria
  • Theonoe stridula Crosby, 1906 – USA, Canada

Formerly included:

  • T. americana Simon, 1897 (Transferred to Thymoites)
  • T. detriticola Miller, 1970 (Transferred to Carniella)
  • T. globifera Simon, 1899 (Transferred to Carniella)
  • T. mihaili (Georgescu, 1989) (Transferred to Carniella)
  • T. striatipes Petrunkevitch, 1930 (Transferred to Eidmannella)
  • T. weyersi Brignoli, 1979 (Transferred to Carniella)

Nomen dubium

  • T. fusca (Blackwall, 1841

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Theonoe Simon, 1881". Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3549. Retrieved 2020-07-14. 
  2. Simon, E. (1881). Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, première partie. Roret, Paris. pp. 1–180. 

Further reading

  • Le Peru, B. (2011). "The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae". Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1–522. 
  • Thaler, K.; Knoflach, B. (2000). "Das Weibchen von Theonoe sola Thaler & Steinberger, 1988 (Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae)". Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 87: 159–164. 
  • Thaler, K.; Steinberger, K.-H. (1988). "Zwei neue Zwerg-Kugelspinnen aus Österreich (Arachnida: Aranei, Theridiidae)". Revue Suisse de Zoologie 95 (4): 997–1004. 
  • Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 127: 1–71. 
  • Levi, H. W. (1955). "The spider genera Coressa and Achaearanea in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae)". American Museum Novitates 1718: 1–33. 

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