Orsinome Explained

Orsinome is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890.^[1] It is included in the Nanometa clade, defined by nine morphological synapomorphies, along with Eryciniolia and Nanometa.^[2]

Species

it contains thirteen species, found in Oceania, Asia, and on Madagascar:^[3]

• Orsinome armata Pocock, 1901 – India
• Orsinome cavernicola (Thorell, 1878) – Indonesia (Ambon)
• Orsinome daiqin Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
• Orsinome diporusa Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
• Orsinome elberti Strand, 1911 – Timor
• Orsinome jiarui Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
• Orsinome lorentzi Kulczyński, 1911 – New Guinea
• Orsinome megaloverpa Hormiga & Kallal, 2018 – Philippines
• Orsinome monulfi Chrysanthus, 1971 – New Guinea
• Orsinome phrygiana Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
• Orsinome pilatrix (Thorell, 1878) – Indonesia (Ambon)
• Orsinome trappensis Schenkel, 1953 – China
• Orsinome vethi (Hasselt, 1882) (type) – India, China, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Flores)

In synonymy:

• O. listeri Gravely, 1921 = Orsinome vethi (Hasselt, 1882)
• O. nepula (Tikader, 1970) = Orsinome vethi (Hasselt, 1882)

See also

• List of Tetragnathidae species
• Eryciniolia
• Nanometa

Notes and References

1. Thorell. T.. 1890. Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 1. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 5–421. 28. Tamerlan_Thorell.
2. Álvarez-Padilla. F.. Hormiga. G.. 2011. Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 162. 4. 139. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00692.x. free.
3. Gen. Orsinome Thorell, 1890. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-12-01. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.