Neottiura

Neottiura
Neottiura bimaculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Neottiura Menge, 1868 [1]
Type species
N. bimaculata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Species
6, see text

Neottiura is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Anton Menge in 1868. ^[2]

Species

As of May 2020 ^[update] it contains six species and one subspecies, found in Asia, Europe, North America, and Algeria: ^[1]

• Neottiura bimaculata (Linnaeus, 1767) (type) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China, Japan
  • Neottiura b. pellucida (Simon, 1873) – Spain, France, Italy
• Neottiura curvimana (Simon, 1914) – Portugal, Spain, France, Algeria
• Neottiura herbigrada (Simon, 1873) – Madeira, Mediterranean, Ukraine, China, Korea
• Neottiura margarita (Yoshida, 1985) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
• Neottiura suaveolens (Simon, 1880) – Europe
• Neottiura uncinata (Lucas, 1846) – Mediterranean

In synonymy:

• N. apicataO. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 = Neottiura uncinata(Lucas, 1846)
• N. nivalia(Saito, 1934) = Neottiura bimaculata(Linnaeus, 1767)
• N. pusillata(Roewer, 1942) = Neottiura herbigrada(Simon, 1873)
• N. pustulifera(Levy & Amitai, 1982) = Neottiura herbigrada(Simon, 1873)
• N. regia(Drensky, 1929) = Neottiura suaveolens(Simon, 1880)

References

1. "Gen. Neottiura Menge, 1868". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2020-06-30.
2. Menge, A. (1868). "Preussische Spinnen. II. Abtheilung". Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig. 2: 153–218.