Paratheuma

Paratheuma is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by E. B. Bryant in 1940.[5] Originally placed with the ground spiders, it was transferred to the intertidal spiders in 1975,[6] and to the Dictynidae in 2016.[7]

Paratheuma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Dictynidae
Genus:	Paratheuma Bryant, 1940[1]
Type species
P. insulana (Banks, 1902)
Species
11, see text
Synonyms[1]
Corteza Roth & Brown, 1975[2] Litisedes Oi, 1960[3] Swainsia Marples, 1964[4]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains eleven species:[1]

• Paratheuma andromeda Beatty & Berry, 1989 – Cook Is.
• Paratheuma armata (Marples, 1964) – Caroline Is. to Samoa
• Paratheuma australis Beatty & Berry, 1989 – Australia (Queensland), Fiji
• Paratheuma awasensis Shimojana, 2013 – Japan (Okinawa)
• Paratheuma enigmatica Zamani, Marusik & Berry, 2016 – Iran
• Paratheuma insulana (Banks, 1902) (type) – USA, Caribbean. Introduced to Japan
• Paratheuma interaesta (Roth & Brown, 1975) – Mexico
• Paratheuma makai Berry & Beatty, 1989 – Hawaii
• Paratheuma ramseyae Beatty & Berry, 1989 – Cook Is.
• Paratheuma rangiroa Beatty & Berry, 1989 – Polynesia
• Paratheuma shirahamaensis (Oi, 1960) – Korea, Japan

References

1. "Gen. Paratheuma Bryant, 1940". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
2. Platnick, N. I. (1977). "Notes on the spider genus Paratheuma Bryant (Arachnida, Araneae)". Journal of Arachnology. 3: 199.
3. Yaginuma, T. (1990). "A spider genus Litisedes Oi is synonymized with Paratheuma Bryant". Nankiseibutu. 32: 2.
4. Beatty, J. A.; Berry, J. W. (1988). "The spider genus Paratheuma (Araneae, Desidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 16: 48.
5. Bryant, E. B. (1940). "Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 86: 247–532.
6. Roth, V. D.; Brown, W. L. (1975). "A new genus of Mexican intertidal zone spider (Desidae) with biological and behavioral notes". American Museum Novitates. 2568: 2.
7. Zamani, A.; Marusik, Y. M.; Berry, J. W. (2016). "A new species of Paratheuma (Araneae: Dictynidae) from Southwestern Asia and transfer of the genus". Zoology in the Middle East. 62 (2): 178. doi:10.1080/09397140.2016.1173927.