Lasaeola Explained

Lasaeola is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1881.^[1] The type species was described under the name Pachydactylus pronus,^[2] but was renamed Lasaeola prona when it was discovered that the name "Pachydactylus" was preoccupied. Both this genus and Deliana were removed from the synonymy of Dipoena in 1988,^[3] but many of these species require more study before their placement is certain.

Species

it contains twenty-four species and one subspecies, found in the Americas, Europe, and Asia:^[4]

• Lasaeola algarvensis Wunderlich, 2011 – Portugal
• Lasaeola armona Wunderlich, 2015 – Portugal, Spain
• Lasaeola atopa (Chamberlin, 1949) – USA
• Lasaeola bequaerti (Chickering, 1948) – Panama
• Lasaeola canariensis (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Lasaeola convexa (Blackwall, 1870) – Mediterranean
• Lasaeola coracina (C. L. Koch, 1837) – Western Europe to Ukraine
• Lasaeola dbari Kovblyuk, Marusik & Omelko, 2012 – Georgia
• Lasaeola donaldi (Chickering, 1943) – Panama, Venezuela
• Lasaeola fastigata Zhang, Liu & Zhang, 2011 – China
• Lasaeola flavitarsis (Wunderlich, 1992) – Canary Is.
• Lasaeola grancanariensis (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Lasaeola lunata Zhang, Liu & Zhang, 2011 – China
• Lasaeola minutissima Wunderlich, 2011 – Portugal, Spain
• Lasaeola oceanica Simon, 1883 – Azores
• Lasaeola okinawana (Yoshida & Ono, 2000) – China, Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
• Lasaeola prona (Menge, 1868) (type) – North America, Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Iran, Japan
• Lasaeola spinithorax (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru
• Lasaeola striata (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Lasaeola superba (Chickering, 1948) – Mexico, Panama
• Lasaeola testaceomarginata Simon, 1881 – Mediterranean
• Lasaeola tristis (Hahn, 1833) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Central Asia
  • Lasaeola t. hissariensis (Charitonov, 1951) – Russia (South Siberia)
• Lasaeola yona (Yoshida & Ono, 2000) – Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
• Lasaeola yoshidai (Ono, 1991) – China, Korea, Japan

In synonymy:

• L. daltoni (Levi, 1953, T from Dipoena) = Lasaeola atopa (Chamberlin, 1949)
• L. hamata (Tullgren, 1949, T from Dipoena) = Lasaeola prona (Menge, 1868)
• L. tibiale (Hahn, 1831, T from Theridion sub nomen dubium) = Lasaeola tristis (Hahn, 1833)
• L. trapezoidalis (Levy & Amitai, 1981, T from Dipoena) = Lasaeola convexa (Blackwall, 1870)

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E.. 1881. Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, première partie. Roret, Paris. 1–180. Eugène_Simon.
2. Menge. A.. 1868. Preussische Spinnen. II. Abtheilung. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig . 177. 2. Anton_Menge.
3. Book: Wunderlich, J.. 1988. Die fossilen Spinnen im Dominikanischen Bernstein. 148.
4. Gen. Lasaeola Simon, 1881. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-27. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.