Yunohamella

Yunohamella
Y. lyrica in North America
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Yunohamella Yoshida, 2007 [1]
Type species
Y. yunohamensis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
Species
8, see text

Yunohamella is a genus of comb-footed spiders (family Theridiidae) that was first described by H. Yoshida in 2007. ^[2]

Distribution

Spiders in this genus are found in Asia, Europe, and North America. ^[1]

Species

As of January 2026 ^[update] , this genus includes thirteen species: ^[1]

• Yunohamella gibbosa Gao & Li, 2014 – China
• Yunohamella gutenbergi R. Zhong, J. Liu & Hu, 2025 – China
• Yunohamella jiugongensis (Liu & Zhong, 2023) – China
• Yunohamella lyrica (Walckenaer, 1841) – China, Korea, Japan, North America
• Yunohamella mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Korea, Japan
• Yunohamella mohorovicici R. Zhong, J. Liu & Hu, 2025 – China
• Yunohamella palmgreni (Marusik & Tsellarius, 1986) – Finland, Poland, Estonia, Russia (Europe to W-Siberia)
• Yunohamella serpatusa (Guan & Zhu, 1993) – Russia (Urals to Far East), China, Korea
• Yunohamella subadulta (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
• Yunohamella takasukai Yoshida, 2012 – Indonesia (Java)
• Yunohamella tanzhengi Liu, 2025 – China
• Yunohamella yinningwani Liu, 2025 – China
• Yunohamella yunohamensis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Russia (Sakhalin, Kurile Islands), Korea, Japan

In synonymy:

• Y. kentuckyensis(Keyserling, 1884) = Yunohamella lyrica(Walckenaer, 1841)
• Y. tigrae(Esyunin & Efimik, 1996) = Yunohamella serpatusa(Guan & Zhu, 1993)

References

1. "Gen. Yoshida, 2007". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2026-01-26.
2. Yoshida, H. (2007). "A new genus of the family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae)". Acta Arachnologica. 56 (2): 67–69. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.56.67 .

Further reading

• Marusik, Y. M.; Logunov, D. V. (2017). "New faunistic and taxonomic data on spiders (Arachnidae: Aranei) from the Russian Far East". Acta Arachnologica. 66 (2): 87–96. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.66.87 .
• 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
• Namkung, J. (2003). The Spiders of Korea. 2nd. ed. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co., Seoul.
• Yoshida, H. (2003). The spider family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Japan. Arachnological Society of Japan. p. 224.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Yunohamella at iNaturalist