Emertonella

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Theridiidae
Subfamilia: Hadrotarsinae
Genus: Emertonella
Species: E. emertoni – E. hainanica – E. serrulata – E. taczanowskii – E. trachypa
Name

Emertonella Bryant, 1945

Type species: Euryopis emertoni Bryant, 1933, by monotypy
References

Bryant, E. B. 1945. Some new or little known southern spiders. Psyche, Cambridge 52: 178–192. PDF [182]
Yoshida, H. 2002. A revision of the Japanese genera and species of the subfamily Hadrotarsinae (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 51(1): 7–18. [17]
Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Emertonella is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by E. B. Bryant in 1945.[2]
Species

As of May 2020 it contains five species, found in Asia, Mexico, the United States, Papua New Guinea, and Argentina:[1]

Emertonella emertoni (Bryant, 1933) (type) – USA, Mexico
Emertonella hainanica Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 – China
Emertonella serrulata Gao & Li, 2014 – China
Emertonella taczanowskii (Keyserling, 1886) – USA to Argentina. Introduced to India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan (Ryukyu Is.), New Guinea
Emertonella trachypa Gao & Li, 2014 – China

In synonymy:

E. dentata = Emertonella taczanowskii (Keyserling, 1886)
E. floricola = Emertonella taczanowskii (Keyserling, 1886)
E. georgiana = Emertonella emertoni (Bryant, 1933)
E. nigripes = Emertonella taczanowskii (Keyserling, 1886)
E. rosascostai = Emertonella taczanowskii (Keyserling, 1886)