Spheropistha Explained

Spheropistha is a genus of Asian comb-footed spiders that was first described by T. Yaginuma in 1957.^[1]

Species

it contains seven species, found in Taiwan, Japan, and China:^[2]

• Spheropistha huangsangensis (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) – China
• Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1957 (type) – Japan, Korea?
• Spheropistha miyashitai (Tanikawa, 1998) – Japan
• Spheropistha nigroris (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000) – Taiwan
• Spheropistha orbita (Zhu, 1998) – China
• Spheropistha rhomboides (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) – China
• Spheropistha xinhua Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 – China

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

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. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x.
• Book: Yin, C. M.. etal. 2012. Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha. 1590.
• Yin. C. M.. Peng. X. J.. Bao. Y. H.. 2004. Two new species of the genus Argyrodes from China (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica. 1–6. 13.
• Yoshida. H.. 2001. The genus Rhomphaea (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan, with notes on the subfamily Argyrodinae. Acta Arachnologica. 183–192. 50. 2. 10.2476/asjaa.50.183. free.

Notes and References

1. Yaginuma. T.. 1957. Two new conopisthine spiders from Japan. Acta Arachnologica. 11–16. 15. 10.2476/asjaa.15.11. free.
2. Gen. Spheropistha Yaginuma, 1957. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-14. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.