Coscinida Explained

Coscinida is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.^[1]

Species

it contains seventeen species, found in Asia, Europe, and Africa:^[2]

• Coscinida asiatica Zhu & Zhang, 1992 – China
• Coscinida conica Yang, Irfan & Peng, 2019 – China
• Coscinida coreana Paik, 1995 – Korea
• Coscinida decemguttata Miller, 1970 – Congo
• Coscinida gentilis Simon, 1895 – Sri Lanka
• Coscinida hunanensis Yin, Peng & Bao, 2006 – China
• Coscinida japonica Yoshida, 1994 – Japan
• Coscinida leviorum Locket, 1968 – Angola
• Coscinida lugubris (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
• Coscinida novemnotata Simon, 1895 – Sri Lanka
• Coscinida proboscidea Simon, 1899 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Coscinida propinqua Miller, 1970 – Angola
• Coscinida shimenensis Yin, Peng & Bao, 2006 – China
• Coscinida tibialis Simon, 1895 (type) – Africa, southern Europe, Turkey, Israel, Yemen. Introduced to Thailand
• Coscinida triangulifera Simon, 1904 – Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Java)
• Coscinida ulleungensis Paik, 1995 – Korea
• Coscinida yei Yin & Bao, 2012 – China

Formerly included:

• C. subtilis Simon, 1895 (Transferred to Stemmops)

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1895. Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 131–160. 64. Eugène_Simon.
2. Gen. Coscinida Simon, 1895. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-06-12. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.