Spheropistha

Spheropistha
Female Spheropistha melanosoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Spheropistha Yaginuma, 1957 [1]
Type species
S. melanosoma Yaginuma, 1957
Species
7, see text

Spheropistha is a genus of Asian comb-footed spiders that was first described by T. Yaginuma in 1957. ^[2]

Species

As of June 2020 ^[update] it contains seven species, found in Taiwan, Japan, and China: ^[1]

• 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

References

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

Further reading

• 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.
• Yin, C. M.; et al. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha. p. 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. 13: 1–6.
• Yoshida, H. (2001). "The genus Rhomphaea (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan, with notes on the subfamily Argyrodinae". Acta Arachnologica. 50 (2): 183–192. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.50.183 .
• Yoshida, H. (2009), "Uloboridae, Theridiidae, Ctenidae", in Ono, H. (ed.), The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species