Coddingtonia Explained

Coddingtonia is a genus of Asian ray spiders that was first described by J. A. Miller, C. E. Griswold, & C. M. Yin in 2009.^[1] It is a senior synonym of Luangnam.

Species

it contains six species, all found in Asia:^[2]

• Coddingtonia anaktakun Labarque & Griswold, 2014 – Malaysia
• Coddingtonia discobulbus (Wunderlich, 2011) – Laos
• Coddingtonia erhuan Feng & Lin, 2019 – China
• Coddingtonia euryopoides Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 (type) – China
• Coddingtonia huifengi Feng & Lin, 2019 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Coddingtonia lizu Feng & Lin, 2019 – China (Hainan)

See also

• List of Theridiosomatidae species

Further reading

• Feng. C. C.. Lin. Y. C.. 2019. Three new species of the genus Coddingtonia from Asia (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae). ZooKeys. 113–126. 886. 10.3897/zookeys.886.35492. 31736624. 6851222. free.
• Lopardo. L.. Hormiga. G.. 2015. Out of the twilight zone: phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of the orb-weaving spider family Mysmenidae, with a focus on spinneret spigot morphology in symphytognathoids (Araneae, Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 527–786. 173. 3. 10.1111/zoj.12199. free.
• Wunderlich. J.. 2011. Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie. 1–640. 6.

Notes and References

1. Miller. J. A.. Griswold. C. E.. Yin. C. M.. 2009. The symphytognathoid spiders of the Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Araneoidea): Systematics and diversity of micro-orbweavers. ZooKeys. 9–195. 11.
2. Gen. Coddingtonia Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-18. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.