Rhomphaea

Rhomphaea is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872.[2]

Rhomphaea
R. tanikawai, male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Rhomphaea
L. Koch, 1872[1]
Type species
R. cometes
L. Koch, 1872
Species

33, see text

Species

As of June 2020 it contains thirty-three species, found worldwide:[1]

  • Rhomphaea aculeata Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
  • Rhomphaea affinis Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique
  • Rhomphaea altissima Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Brazil
  • Rhomphaea angulipalpis Thorell, 1877 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  • Rhomphaea annulipedis Yoshida & Nojima, 2010 – Japan
  • Rhomphaea barycephala (Roberts, 1983) – Seychelles (Aldabra)
  • Rhomphaea brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1920 – Venezuela, Brazil
  • Rhomphaea ceraosus (Zhu & Song, 1991) – China
  • Rhomphaea cometes L. Koch, 1872 (type) – New Guinea, Samoa, French Polynesia
  • Rhomphaea cona (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
  • Rhomphaea fictilium (Hentz, 1850) – Canada to Argentina
  • Rhomphaea hyrcana (Logunov & Marusik, 1990) – Georgia, Azerbaijan, China, Japan, Turkey?
  • Rhomphaea irrorata Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
  • Rhomphaea labiata (Zhu & Song, 1991) – India, China, Korea, Laos, Japan
  • Rhomphaea lactifera Simon, 1909 – Vietnam
  • Rhomphaea longicaudata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 – Greece, Lebanon
  • Rhomphaea metaltissima Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Panama to Brazil
  • Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873) – Canary Is., Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Africa, St. Helena
  • Rhomphaea oris (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
  • Rhomphaea ornatissima Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
  • Rhomphaea palmarensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
  • Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873) – St. Vincent, Mexico to Brazil
  • Rhomphaea pignalitoensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
  • Rhomphaea procera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Costa Rica to Argentina
  • Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 – USA to Argentina. Introduced to India
  • Rhomphaea recurvata (Saaristo, 1978) – Seychelles
  • Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873) – Canary Is., Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece
  • Rhomphaea sagana (Dönitz & Strand, 1906) – Azerbaijan, Russia (Far East), Japan, Philippines
  • Rhomphaea sinica (Zhu & Song, 1991) – China
  • Rhomphaea sjostedti Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
  • Rhomphaea tanikawai Yoshida, 2001 – China, Japan
  • Rhomphaea urquharti (Bryant, 1933) – New Zealand
  • Rhomphaea velhaensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Brazil

In synonymy:

  • R. argenteola (Simon, 1873) = Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873)
  • R. canariensis (Schmidt, 1956) = Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873)
  • R. delicatula (Simon, 1883) = Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873)
  • R. feioi (Mello-Leitão, 1947) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
  • R. honesta (Exline & Levi, 1962) = Rhomphaea brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1920
  • R. longa (Kulczyński, 1905) = Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873)
  • R. martinae (Exline, 1950) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
  • R. petrunkevitchi (Mello-Leitão, 1945) = Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873)
  • R. remota (Bryant, 1940) = Rhomphaea fictilium (Hentz, 1850)
  • R. simoni (Petrunkevitch, 1911) = Rhomphaea procera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898)
  • R. spinicaudata (Keyserling, 1884) = Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873)
  • R. spinosa (Badcock, 1932) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Rhomphaea L. Koch, 1872". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
  2. Koch, L. (1872). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg. pp. 105–368. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660.

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.
  • Exline, H.; Levi, H. W. (1962). "American spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 75–204.
  • Yoshida, H. (2001). "The genus Rhomphaea (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan, with notes on the subfamily Argyrodinae". Acta Arachnologica. 50: 183–192.
  • 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.


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