Rhomphaea

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: Argyrodinae
Genus: Rhomphaea
Species: R. aculeata – R. affinis – R. altissima – R. angulipalpis – R. barycephala – R. brasiliensis – R. ceraosus – R. cometes – R. cona – R. fictilium – R. hyrcana – R. irrorata – R. labiata – R. lactifera – R. metaltissima – R. nasica – R. oris – R. ornatissima – R. palmarensis – R. paradoxa – R. pignalitoensis – R. procera – R. projiciens – R. recurvata – R. rostrata – R. sagana – R. sinica – R. sjostedti – R. tanikawai – R. urquharti – R. velhaensis
Name

Rhomphaea L. Koch, 1872

Type species: Rhomphaea cometes L. Koch, 1872
References

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

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

List of Theridiidae species

References

"Gen. Rhomphaea L. Koch, 1872". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-01.

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.