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Superregnum: Eukaryota
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: Argyrodinae
Genus: Neospintharus
Species: N. baboquivari – N. bicornis – N. concisus – N. furcatus – N. fur – N. nipponicus – N. obscurus – N. parvus – N. rioensis – N. syriacus – N. triangularis – N. trigonum
Name

Neospintharus Exline, 1950

Type species: Neospintharus parvus Exline, 1950

Neospintharus trigonum 3

Neospintharus trigonum, male

References

Exline, H. 1950. Conopisthine spiders (Theridiidae) from Peru and Ecuador. In Studies Honoring Trevor Kincaid. Univ. Washington Press, pp. 108-124. [112]
Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Neospintharus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by H. Exline in 1950.[2] It was synonymized with Argyrodes in 1962,[3] but revalidated in 2004.[4]
Species

As of September 2019 it contains thirteen species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Central America, Asia, Mexico, Turkey, the United States, and Canada:[1]

Neospintharus baboquivari (Exline & Levi, 1962) – USA, Mexico
Neospintharus baekamensis Seo, 2010 – Korea
Neospintharus bicornis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – Brazil
Neospintharus concisus (Exline & Levi, 1962) – Mexico
Neospintharus fur (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Japan
Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) – USA to El Salvador, Caribbean
Neospintharus nipponicus (Kumada, 1990) – China, Korea, Japan
Neospintharus obscurus (Keyserling, 1884) – Peru
Neospintharus parvus Exline, 1950 (type) – Panama to Ecuador
Neospintharus rioensis (Exline & Levi, 1962) – Brazil, Argentina
Neospintharus syriacus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Turkey, Lebanon, Israel
Neospintharus triangularis (Taczanowski, 1873) – Panama, French Guiana
Neospintharus trigonum (Hentz, 1850) – USA, Canada

In synonymy:

N. bifissus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) = Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)
N. frontatus (Banks, 1908) = Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)
N. gansuensis (Zhu, 1998) = Neospintharus fur (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
N. montanus (Keyserling, 1884) = Neospintharus obscurus (Keyserling, 1884)

See also

List of Theridiidae species

References

"Gen. Neospintharus Exline, 1950". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
Exline, H. (1950), "Conopisthine spiders (Theridiidae) from Peru and Ecuador", Studies Honoring Trevor Kincaid
Exline, H.; Levi, H. W. (1962). "American spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 75–204.
Agnarsson, I. (2004). "Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 141: 447–626.

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