Spheropistha is a genus of Asian comb-footed spiders that was first described by T. Yaginuma in 1957.[2]
| 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] |
| Type species | |
| S. melanosoma Yaginuma, 1957
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Species
editAs of June 2020[update] 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
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Yaginuma, T. (1957). "Two new conopisthine spiders from Japan". Acta Arachnologica. 15: 11–16. doi:10.2476/asjaa.15.11.
Further reading
edit- 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.; 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 (2): 183–192. doi:10.2476/asjaa.50.183.
- 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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