Phoroncidia

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: Pholcommatinae
Genus: Phoroncidia
Species (73): P. aciculata – P. aculeata – P. alishanensis – P. altiventris – P. alveolata – P. ambatolahy – P. americana – P. argoides – P. aurata – P. bifrons – P. biocellata – P. bukolana – P. capensis – P. concave – P. coracina – P. cribrata – P. crustula – P. cygnea – P. eburnea – P. ellenbergeri – P. escalerai – P. flavolimbata – P. floripara – P. fumosa – P. gayi – P. gira – P. hankiewiczi – P. hexacantha – P. jacobsoni – P. kibonotensis – P. levii – P. longiceps – P. lygeana – P. maindroni – P. minlangi – P. minschana – P. minuta – P. moyobamba – P. musiva – P. nasuta – P. nicoleti – P. oahuensis – P. paradoxa – P. pennata – P. personata – P. pilula – P. piratini – P. pukeiwa – P. puketoru – P. puyehue – P. quadrata – P. quadrispinella – P. ravot – P. reimoseri – P. roseleviorum – P. rotunda – P. rubens – P. rubroargentea – P. rubromaculata – P. ryukyuensis – P. saboya – P. scutellata – P. scutula – P. septemaculeata – P. sextuberculata – P. sjostedti – P. spissa – P. splendida – P. studo – P. testudo – P. thwaitesi – P. tina – P. tricuspidata – P. trituberculata – P. triunfo – P. truncatula – P. umbrosa – P. variabilis – P. vatoharanana – P. wrightae

Name

Phoroncidia Westwood, 1835

Type species: Phoroncidia aculeata Westwood, 1835
Synonyms

Trithena Simon, 1867
Ulesanis L. Koch, 1872
Sudabe Karsch, 1879
Wibrada Keyserling, 1886

References

Buckup, E.H. & Marques, M.A.L. 1989. Aranhas Theridiidae da Ilha de Maracá, Roraima, Brasil. I. Nova espécie de Echinotheridion e descrição da fêmea de Phoroncidia moyobamba (Araneae) Iheringia, Série Zoologia 69: 123-129. Reference page.
Kariko, S.J. 2014: The glitterati: four new species of Phoroncidia (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Madagascar, with the first description of the male of P. aurata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877. Arachnology 16(6): 195–213. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2014.16.6.195 Reference page.
Nafin, K.S., Sumesh, N.V., Sudhin, P.P. & Sudhikumar, A.V. 2019. Redescription and new records of Phoroncidia septemaculeata O. Pickard Cambridge 1873 from India (Araneae: Theridiidae). Zootaxa 4691(2): 188–194. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4691.2.9. Paywall. Reference page.
Rodrigues, E.N.L.; Marques, M.A.L. 2010: On the genus Phoroncidia: new species, ecology and description of the male of P. reimoseri and new records for southern Brazil (Araneae, Theridiidae). Iheringia, séries zoologia, 100 (3): 247–253. ISSN: 0073-4721 DOI: 10.1590/S0073-47212010000300010

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Phoroncidia is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. O. Westwood in 1835.[4]
Species

As of May 2020 it contains seventy-nine species and one subspecies, found worldwide:[1]

P. aciculata Thorell, 1877 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
P. aculeata Westwood, 1835 (type) – India, China
P. alishanensis Chen, 1990 – Taiwan
P. altiventris Yoshida, 1985 – Japan
P. alveolata (Simon, 1903) – Equatorial Guinea
P. ambatolahy Kariko, 2014 – Madagascar
P. americana (Emerton, 1882) – USA, Canada, Cuba, Jamaica
P. argoides (Doleschall, 1857) – Indonesia (Ambon)
P. aurata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 – Madagascar
P. bifrons (Simon, 1895) – Philippines
P. biocellata (Simon, 1893) – Brazil
P. bukolana Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
P. capensis (Simon, 1895) – South Africa
P. concave Yin & Xu, 2012 – China
P. coracina (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
P. cribrata (Simon, 1893) – Paraguay
P. crustula Zhu, 1998 – China
P. cygnea (Hickman, 1951) – Australia (Tasmania)
P. eburnea (Simon, 1895) – South Africa
P. ellenbergeri Berland, 1913 – Gabon
P. escalerai (Simon, 1903) – Equatorial Guinea
P. flavolimbata (Simon, 1893) – Ecuador
P. floripara Gao & Li, 2014 – China
P. fumosa (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
P. gayi (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
P. gira Levi, 1964 – Venezuela
P. hankiewiczi (Kulczyński, 1911) – Portugal, Spain, France
P. hexacantha Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
P. jacobsoni (Reimoser, 1925) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
P. kibonotensis (Tullgren, 1910) – East Africa
Phoroncidia k. concolor (Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya
P. levii Chrysanthus, 1963 – New Guinea
P. longiceps (Keyserling, 1886) – Brazil
P. lygeana (Walckenaer, 1841) – Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Borneo)
P. maindroni (Simon, 1905) – India
P. minuta (Spassky, 1932) – Georgia, Azerbaijan
P. moyobamba Levi, 1964 – Peru, Brazil
P. musiva (Simon, 1880) – New Caledonia
P. nasuta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Japan
P. nicoleti (Roewer, 1942) – Chile
P. nicoleti Levi, 1964 – Chile
P. oahuensis (Simon, 1900) – Hawaii
P. paradoxa (Lucas, 1846) – Southern Europe, North Africa, Turkey
P. pennata (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
P. personata (L. Koch, 1872) – Samoa, Fiji, Australia (Lord Howe Is.)
P. pilula (Karsch, 1879) – Georgia, Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
P. pilula (Simon, 1895) – Tanzania (Zanzibar)
P. piratini Rodrigues & Marques, 2010 – Brazil
P. pukeiwa (Marples, 1955) – New Zealand
P. puketoru (Marples, 1955) – New Zealand
P. puyehue Levi, 1967 – Chile
P. quadrata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – New Zealand
P. ravot Levi, 1964 – Venezuela
P. reimoseri Levi, 1964 – Brazil
P. roseleviorum Kariko, 2014 – Madagascar
P. rotunda (Keyserling, 1890) – Australia (Queensland, Lord Howe Is.), Samoa
P. rubens Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon
P. rubroargentea Berland, 1913 – Madagascar
P. rubromaculata (Keyserling, 1886) – Brazil
P. ryukyuensis Yoshida, 1979 – Taiwan, Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
P. saboya Levi, 1964 – Colombia
P. scutellata (Taczanowski, 1879) – Peru
P. scutula (Nicolet, 1849) – Bolivia, Chile
P. septemaculeata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873 – India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia
P. sextuberculata (Keyserling, 1890) – Australia (Queensland)
P. sjostedti Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
P. spissa (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
P. splendida Thorell, 1899 – West Africa
P. studo Levi, 1964 – Peru, Brazil
P. testudo (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – India, Sri Lanka
P. thwaitesi O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 – Sri Lanka
P. tina Levi, 1964 – Brazil
P. tricuspidata (Blackwall, 1863) – Brazil
P. trituberculata (Hickman, 1951) – Australia (Tasmania)
P. triunfo Levi, 1964 – Mexico to Costa Rica
P. truncatula (Strand, 1909) – South Africa
P. umbrosa (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
P. variabilis (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
P. vatoharanana Kariko, 2014 – Madagascar
P. wrightae Kariko, 2014 – Madagascar

Formerly included:

P. flavomaculata (Keyserling, 1891) (Transferred to Dipoena)
P. sudabides (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (Transferred to Chrosiothes)

Nomen dubium

P. quadrispinella Strand, 1907