Hentziectypus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1946.[2] Originally placed with Theridion, it was moved to Achaearanea in 1955,[3] and to its own genus in 2008.[4] These spiders most resemble members of Cryptachaea, but are distinguished by a median apophysis that is broadly attached to the tegulum. Spiders of Parasteatoda have a median apophysis attached to the embolus, while those of Achaearanea have a hooked paracymbium on the pedipalps of males.[4]
| Hentziectypus | |
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| H. globosus, adult female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Hentziectypus Archer, 1946[1] |
| Type species | |
| H. globosus (Hentz, 1850)
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| Species | |
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12, see text | |
Species
editAs of September 2019[update] it contains twelve species, found in the Americas and in the Caribbean, including Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, and Bermuda:[1]
- Hentziectypus annus (Levi, 1959) – Jamaica, Bermuda
- Hentziectypus apex (Levi, 1959) – Panama
- Hentziectypus conjunctus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) – USA, Canada
- Hentziectypus florendidus (Levi, 1959) – USA to Venezuela
- Hentziectypus florens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – USA to Panama, Cuba
- Hentziectypus globosus (Hentz, 1850) (type) – North America
- Hentziectypus hermosillo (Levi, 1959) – Mexico
- Hentziectypus rafaeli (Buckup & Marques, 1991) – Bolivia, Brazil
- Hentziectypus schullei (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) – USA, Mexico
- Hentziectypus serax (Levi, 1959) – Mexico
- Hentziectypus tayrona Buckup, Marques & Rodrigues, 2012 – Colombia
- Hentziectypus turquino (Levi, 1959) – Cuba
In synonymy:
- H. credulus (Gertsch & Davis, 1936) = Hentziectypus schullei (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936)
- H. mendax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) = Hentziectypus florens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Hentziectypus Archer, 1946". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
- ^ Archer, A. F. (1946). "The Theridiidae or comb-footed spiders of Alabama". Museum Paper, Alabama Museum of Natural History. 22: 1–67.
- ^ Levi, H. W. (1955). "The spider genera Coressa and Achaearanea in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae)". American Museum Novitates (1718): 1–33.
- ^ a b Yoshida, H. (2008). "A revision of the genus Achaearanea (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Acta Arachnologica. 57: 38. doi:10.2476/asjaa.57.37.
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