Neospintharus

Neospintharus
N. trigonum, male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Neospintharus Exline, 1950 [1]
Type species
N. parvus Exline, 1950
Species
13, see text

Neospintharus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by H. Exline in 1950. ^[2] It was synonymized with Argyrodes in 1962, ^[3] but revalidated in 2004. ^[4]

Species

As of September 2019 ^[update] it contains thirteen species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Central America, Asia, Mexico, Turkey, the United States, and Canada: ^[1]

• Neospintharus baboquivari (Exline & Levi, 1962) – USA, Mexico
• Neospintharus baekamensis Seo, 2010 – Korea
• Neospintharus bicornis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – Brazil
• Neospintharus concisus (Exline & Levi, 1962) – Mexico
• Neospintharus fur (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Japan
• Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) – USA to El Salvador, Caribbean
• Neospintharus nipponicus (Kumada, 1990) – China, Korea, Japan
• Neospintharus obscurus (Keyserling, 1884) – Peru
• Neospintharus parvus Exline, 1950 (type) – Panama to Ecuador
• Neospintharus rioensis (Exline & Levi, 1962) – Brazil, Argentina
• Neospintharus syriacus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Turkey, Lebanon, Israel
• Neospintharus triangularis (Taczanowski, 1873) – Panama, French Guiana
• Neospintharus trigonum (Hentz, 1850) – USA, Canada

In synonymy:

• N. bifissus(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) = Neospintharus furcatus(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)
• N. frontatus(Banks, 1908) = Neospintharus furcatus(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)
• N. gansuensis(Zhu, 1998) = Neospintharus fur(Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
• N. montanus(Keyserling, 1884) = Neospintharus obscurus(Keyserling, 1884)

References

1. "Gen. Neospintharus Exline, 1950". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-10-27.
2. Exline, H. (1950), "Conopisthine spiders (Theridiidae) from Peru and Ecuador", Studies Honoring Trevor Kincaid
3. Exline, H.; Levi, H. W. (1962). "American spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 75–204.
4. Agnarsson, I. (2004). "Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 141 (4): 447–626. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x.