Phycosoma

Phycosoma is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1880.[3]

Phycosoma
female P. martinae from Okinawa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Phycosoma
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879[1]
Type species
P. oecobioides
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880
Species

26, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of May 2020 it contains twenty-six species, found worldwide:[1]

  • Phycosoma altum (Keyserling, 1886) – Mexico to Brazil. Introduced to Hawaii
  • Phycosoma amamiense (Yoshida, 1985) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan (mainland, Ryukyu Is.)
  • Phycosoma corrugum Gao & Li, 2014 – China
  • Phycosoma crenatum Gao & Li, 2014 – China
  • Phycosoma diaoluo Zhang & Zhang, 2012 – China
  • Phycosoma digitula Zhang & Zhang, 2012 – China
  • Phycosoma excisum (Simon, 1889) – Madagascar
  • Phycosoma flavomarginatum (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Japan
  • Phycosoma hainanensis (Zhu, 1998) – China, Laos
  • Phycosoma hana (Zhu, 1998) – China
  • Phycosoma inornatum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1861) – Europe, Turkey, Azerbaijan
  • Phycosoma jamesi (Roberts, 1979) – Jamaica, Panama
  • Phycosoma japonicum (Yoshida, 1985) – Korea, Japan
  • Phycosoma labialis (Zhu, 1998) – China
  • Phycosoma ligulaceum Gao & Li, 2014 – China
  • Phycosoma lineatipes (Bryant, 1933) – USA to Brazil
  • Phycosoma martinae (Roberts, 1983) – Seychelles, India, China, Korea, Japan (Ryukyu Is.), Philippines
  • Phycosoma menustya (Roberts, 1983) – Seychelles
  • Phycosoma mustelinum (Simon, 1889) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan, Indonesia (Krakatau)
  • Phycosoma nigromaculatum (Yoshida, 1987) – China, Taiwan, Japan, Ryukyu Is.
  • Phycosoma oecobioides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880 (type) – New Zealand (mainland, Chatham Is.)
  • Phycosoma sinica (Zhu, 1992) – China, Vietnam
  • Phycosoma spundana (Roberts, 1978) – Seychelles
  • Phycosoma stellaris (Zhu, 1998) – China
  • Phycosoma stictum (Zhu, 1992) – China
  • Phycosoma stigmosum Yin, 2012 – China

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Phycosoma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  2. Fitzgerald, B. M.; Sirvid, P. J. (2003). "The genus Trigonobothrys in New Zealand and a redescription of Achaearanea blattea (Theridiidae: Araneae)". Tuhinga. 14: 28.
  3. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1880). "On some new and rare spiders from New Zealand, with characters of four new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 47: 681–703.

Further reading
  • Zhu, M. S. (1998). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing. p. 436.
  • Song, D. X.; Zhu, M. S.; Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang. p. 640.
  • Yoshida, H. (2002). "A revision of the Japanese genera and species of the subfamily Hadrotarsinae (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Acta Arachnologica. 51: 7–18.
  • Zhang, F.; Zhang, B. S. (2012). "Spiders of the genus Phycosoma O. P.-Cambridge, 1879 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Hainan Island, China". Zootaxa. 3339: 30–43.


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