Hentziectypus

Hentziectypus
H. globosus, adult female
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Hentziectypus Archer, 1946 [1]
Type species
H. globosus (Hentz, 1850)
Species
12, see text

Hentziectypus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1946. ^[2] Originally placed with Theridion , it was moved to Achaearanea in 1955, ^[3] and to its own genus in 2008. ^[4] These spiders most resemble members of Cryptachaea , but are distinguished by a median apophysis that is broadly attached to the tegulum. Spiders of Parasteatoda have a median apophysis attached to the embolus, while those of Achaearanea have a hooked paracymbium on the pedipalps of males. ^[4]

Species

As of September 2019 ^[update] it contains twelve species, found in the Americas and in the Caribbean, including Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, and Bermuda: ^[1]

• Hentziectypus annus (Levi, 1959) – Jamaica, Bermuda
• Hentziectypus apex (Levi, 1959) – Panama
• Hentziectypus conjunctus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) – USA, Canada
• Hentziectypus florendidus (Levi, 1959) – USA to Venezuela
• Hentziectypus florens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – USA to Panama, Cuba
• Hentziectypus globosus (Hentz, 1850) (type) – North America
• Hentziectypus hermosillo (Levi, 1959) – Mexico
• Hentziectypus rafaeli (Buckup & Marques, 1991) – Bolivia, Brazil
• Hentziectypus schullei (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) – USA, Mexico
• Hentziectypus serax (Levi, 1959) – Mexico
• Hentziectypus tayrona Buckup, Marques & Rodrigues, 2012 – Colombia
• Hentziectypus turquino (Levi, 1959) – Cuba

In synonymy:

• H. credulus(Gertsch & Davis, 1936) = Hentziectypus schullei(Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936)
• H. mendax(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) = Hentziectypus florens(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896)

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Hentziectypus Archer, 1946". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-10-27.
2. Archer, A. F. (1946). "The Theridiidae or comb-footed spiders of Alabama". Museum Paper, Alabama Museum of Natural History. 22: 1–67.
3. Levi, H. W. (1955). "The spider genera Coressa and Achaearanea in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae)". American Museum Novitates (1718): 1–33.
4. Yoshida, H. (2008). "A revision of the genus Achaearanea (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Acta Arachnologica. 57: 38. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.57.37 .