Rhomphaea Explained
Rhomphaea is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872.[1]
Species
it contains thirty-three species, found worldwide:[2]
- Rhomphaea aculeata Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
- Rhomphaea affinis Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique
- Rhomphaea altissima Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Brazil
- Rhomphaea angulipalpis Thorell, 1877 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
- Rhomphaea annulipedis Yoshida & Nojima, 2010 – Japan
- Rhomphaea barycephala (Roberts, 1983) – Seychelles (Aldabra)
- Rhomphaea brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1920 – Venezuela, Brazil
- Rhomphaea ceraosus (Zhu & Song, 1991) – China
- Rhomphaea cometes L. Koch, 1872 (type) – New Guinea, Samoa, French Polynesia
- Rhomphaea cona (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
- Rhomphaea fictilium (Hentz, 1850) – Canada to Argentina
- Rhomphaea hyrcana (Logunov & Marusik, 1990) – Georgia, Azerbaijan, China, Japan, Turkey?
- Rhomphaea irrorata Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
- Rhomphaea labiata (Zhu & Song, 1991) – India, China, Korea, Laos, Japan
- Rhomphaea lactifera Simon, 1909 – Vietnam
- Rhomphaea longicaudata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 – Greece, Lebanon
- Rhomphaea metaltissima Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Panama to Brazil
- Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873) – Canary Is., Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Africa, St. Helena
- Rhomphaea oris (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
- Rhomphaea ornatissima Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
- Rhomphaea palmarensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
- Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873) – St. Vincent, Mexico to Brazil
- Rhomphaea pignalitoensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
- Rhomphaea procera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Costa Rica to Argentina
- Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 – USA to Argentina. Introduced to India
- Rhomphaea recurvata (Saaristo, 1978) – Seychelles
- Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873) – Canary Is., Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece
- Rhomphaea sagana (Dönitz & Strand, 1906) – Azerbaijan, Russia (Far East), Japan, Philippines
- Rhomphaea sinica (Zhu & Song, 1991) – China
- Rhomphaea sjostedti Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
- Rhomphaea tanikawai Yoshida, 2001 – China, Japan
- Rhomphaea urquharti (Bryant, 1933) – New Zealand
- Rhomphaea velhaensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Brazil
In synonymy:
- R. argenteola (Simon, 1873) = Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873)
- R. canariensis (Schmidt, 1956) = Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873)
- R. delicatula (Simon, 1883) = Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873)
- R. feioi (Mello-Leitão, 1947) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
- R. honesta (Exline & Levi, 1962) = Rhomphaea brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1920
- R. longa (Kulczyński, 1905) = Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873)
- R. martinae (Exline, 1950) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
- R. petrunkevitchi (Mello-Leitão, 1945) = Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873)
- R. remota (Bryant, 1940) = Rhomphaea fictilium (Hentz, 1850)
- R. simoni (Petrunkevitch, 1911) = Rhomphaea procera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898)
- R. spinicaudata (Keyserling, 1884) = Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873)
- R. spinosa (Badcock, 1932) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
See also
Further reading
- Agnarsson. I.. 2004. Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 447–626. 141. 4.
- Exline. H.. Levi. H. W.. 1962. American spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 75–204. 127.
- Yoshida. H.. 2001. The genus Rhomphaea (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan, with notes on the subfamily Argyrodinae. Acta Arachnologica. 183–192. 50.
- Book: Song, D. X.. Zhu. M. S.. Chen. J.. 1999. The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang. 640.
- Book: Zhu, M. S.. 1998. Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing. 436.
Notes and References
- Book: Koch, L.. 1872. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. 105–368. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg. 10.5962/bhl.title.121660. Ludwig_Carl_Christian_Koch.
- Web site: Gen. Rhomphaea L. Koch, 1872. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-01. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
