Takayus

Takayus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Takayus Yoshida, 2001 [1]
Type species
T. takayensis (Saito, 1939)
Species
17, see text

Takayus is a genus of Asian comb-footed spiders (family Theridiidae) that was first described by H. Yoshida in 2001. ^[2]

Species

As of June 2020 ^[update] it contains seventeen species, found in Asia: ^[1]

• Takayus chikunii (Yaginuma, 1960) – China, Japan
• Takayus codomaculatus Yin, 2012 – China
• Takayus fujisawai Yoshida, 2002 – Japan
• Takayus huanrenensis (Zhu & Gao, 1993) – China
• Takayus kunmingicus (Zhu, 1998) – China
• Takayus latifolius (Yaginuma, 1960) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
• Takayus linimaculatus (Zhu, 1998) – China
• Takayus lunulatus (Guan & Zhu, 1993) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea
• Takayus lushanensis (Zhu, 1998) – China
• Takayus naevius (Zhu, 1998) – China
• Takayus papiliomaculatus Yin, Peng & Zhang, 2005 – China
• Takayus quadrimaculatus (Song & Kim, 1991) – China, Korea
• Takayus simplicus Yin, 2012 – China
• Takayus sublatifolius (Zhu, 1998) – China
• Takayus takayensis (Saito, 1939) (type) – China, Korea, Japan
• Takayus wangi (Zhu, 1998) – China
• Takayus xui (Zhu, 1998) – China

Formerly included:

• T. lyricus(Walckenaer, 1841) (Transferred to Yunohamella )
• T. subadultus(Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (Transferred to Yunohamella)
• T. yunohamensis(Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (Transferred to Yunohamella)

In synonymy:

• T. wolmerensis(Paik, 1996) = Takayus quadrimaculatus(Song & Kim, 1991)

References

1. "Gen. Takayus Yoshida, 2001". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2020-07-14.
2. Yoshida, H. (2001). "A revision of the Japanese genera and species of the subfamily Theridiinae (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Acta Arachnologica. 50 (2): 157–181. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.50.157 .

Further reading

• Song, D. X.; Zhu, M. S.; Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang. p. 640.
• Zhu, M. S. (1998). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing. p. 436.
• Yin, C. M.; et al. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha. p. 1590.
• Namkung, J. (2002). The spiders of Korea. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co., Seoul.