Theridiosoma

Theridiosoma is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1879.[3]

Theridiosoma
Temporal range: Neogene– Present
T. gemmosum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiosomatidae
Genus: Theridiosoma
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879[1]
Type species
T. gemmosum
(L. Koch, 1877)
Species

33, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of June 2020 it contains thirty-three species, found in Oceania, Asia, Central America, Africa, South America, North America, Europe, and the Caribbean:[1]

  • Theridiosoma ankas Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
  • Theridiosoma argenteolunulatum Simon, 1897 – Caribbean, Venezuela
  • Theridiosoma blaisei Simon, 1903 – Gabon
  • Theridiosoma caaguara Rodrigues & Ott, 2005 – Brazil
  • Theridiosoma chiripa Rodrigues & Ott, 2005 – Brazil
  • Theridiosoma circuloargenteum Wunderlich, 1976 – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Theridiosoma concolor Keyserling, 1884 – Mexico, Brazil
  • Theridiosoma davisi Archer, 1953 – Mexico
  • Theridiosoma diwang Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 – China
  • Theridiosoma epeiroides Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – Russia (Far East), Korea, Japan
  • Theridiosoma esmeraldas Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
  • Theridiosoma fasciatum Workman, 1896 – Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • Theridiosoma gemmosum (L. Koch, 1877) (type) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Japan
  • Theridiosoma genevensium (Brignoli, 1972) – Sri Lanka
  • Theridiosoma goodnightorum Archer, 1953 – Mexico to Costa Rica
  • Theridiosoma kikuyu Brignoli, 1979 – Kenya
  • Theridiosoma kullki Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
  • Theridiosoma latebricola Locket, 1968 – Angola
  • Theridiosoma lopdelli Marples, 1955 – Samoa
  • Theridiosoma lucidum Simon, 1897 – Venezuela
  • Theridiosoma nebulosum Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
  • Theridiosoma nechodomae Petrunkevitch, 1930 – Jamaica, Puerto Rico
  • Theridiosoma obscurum (Keyserling, 1886) – Brazil
  • Theridiosoma picteti Simon, 1893 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • Theridiosoma plumarium Zhao & Li, 2012 – China
  • Theridiosoma sacha Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
  • Theridiosoma sancristobalensis Baert, 2014 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
  • Theridiosoma savannum Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 – USA
  • Theridiosoma shuangbi Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 – China
  • Theridiosoma taiwanica Zhang, Zhu & Tso, 2006 – Taiwan
  • Theridiosoma triumphale Zhao & Li, 2012 – China
  • Theridiosoma vimineum Zhao & Li, 2012 – China
  • Theridiosoma zygops (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) – Panama

Formerly included:

  • T. albonotatum Petrunkevitch, 1930 (Transferred to Baalzebub)
  • T. benoiti Roberts, 1978 (Transferred to Andasta)
  • T. brauni Wunderlich, 1976 (Transferred to Baalzebub)
  • T. fauna Simon, 1897 (Transferred to Naatlo)
  • T. nigrum (Keyserling, 1886) (Transferred to Wendilgarda)
  • T. semiargenteum (Simon, 1895) (Transferred to Andasta)
  • T. splendidum (Taczanowski, 1873) (Transferred to Naatlo)
  • T. sylvicola Hingston, 1932 (Transferred to Naatlo)

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Theridiosoma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  2. Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 30.
  3. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1879). "On some new and rare British spiders, with characters of a new genus". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4 (5): 190–215.

Further reading
  • Archer, A. F. (1953). "Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae). 3". American Museum Novitates. 1622: 1–27.
  • Dupérré, N.; Tapia, E. (2017). "On some minuscule spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae, Symphytognathidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of ten new species". Zootaxa. 4341 (3): 375–399.
  • Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 422: 1–96.
  • Zhao, Q. Y.; Li, S. Q. (2012). "Eleven new species of theridiosomatid spiders from southern China (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae)". ZooKeys. 255: 1–48.
  • Keyserling, E. (1884). Die Spinnen Amerikas II. Theridiidae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg. pp. 1–222. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832.


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