Biology:Neospintharus

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Neospintharus
Neospintharus trigonum 3.jpg
N. trigonum, male
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Neospintharus
Exline, 1950[1]
Type species
N. parvus
Exline, 1950
Species

13, see text

Neospintharus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by H. Exline in 1950.[2] It was synonymized with Argyrodes in 1962,[3] but revalidated in 2004.[4]

Species

(As of September 2019) it contains thirteen species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Central America, Asia, Mexico, Turkey, the United States , and Canada :[1]

  • Neospintharus baboquivari (Exline & Levi, 1962) – USA, Mexico
  • Neospintharus baekamensis Seo, 2010Korea
  • Neospintharus bicornis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880)Brazil
  • Neospintharus concisus (Exline & Levi, 1962) – Mexico
  • Neospintharus fur (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)China , Korea, Japan
  • Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) – USA to El Salvador, Caribbean
  • Neospintharus nipponicus (Kumada, 1990) – China, Korea, Japan
  • Neospintharus obscurus (Keyserling, 1884) – Peru
  • Neospintharus parvus Exline, 1950 (type) – Panama to Ecuador
  • Neospintharus rioensis (Exline & Levi, 1962) – Brazil, Argentina
  • Neospintharus syriacus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)Turkey, Lebanon, Israel
  • Neospintharus triangularis (Taczanowski, 1873) – Panama, French Guiana
  • Neospintharus trigonum (Hentz, 1850) – USA, Canada

In synonymy:

  • N. bifissus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) = Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)
  • N. frontatus (Banks, 1908) = Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)
  • N. gansuensis (Zhu, 1998) = Neospintharus fur (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
  • N. montanus (Keyserling, 1884) = Neospintharus obscurus (Keyserling, 1884)

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Neospintharus Exline, 1950. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3511. Retrieved 2019-10-27. 
  2. Exline, H. (1950), "Conopisthine spiders (Theridiidae) from Peru and Ecuador", Studies Honoring Trevor Kincaid 
  3. Exline, H.; Levi, H. W. (1962). "American spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 127: 75–204. 
  4. 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. https://zenodo.org/record/5431156. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5303785 entry