World Spider Catalog

Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Hadrotarsidae Thorell, 1881: 190 (sub Hardotarsoidae, removed from the synonymy of Oonopidae by Roewer, 1963a: 122, contra Roewer, 1942a: 287) by Forster, Platnick & Coddington, 1990: 111 (after Wunderlich, 1978a: 25 and Wunderlich, 1986: 95, contra Baert, 1984a: 615 and Davies, 1985: 67), who recognized an expanded Hadrotarsinae as well as a separate subfamily Spintharinae Simon, 1894a: 512 (sub Spinthareae); the subfamily Theonoeinae Simon, 1894a: 586 (sub Theonoeae) (synonym Pholcommatinae Simon, 1894a: 589, sub Pholcommateae), which include Theonoe Simon, 1881, Carniella Thaler & Steinberger, 1988, Robertus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879 and Pholcomma Thorell, 1869, is circumscribed by Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 51; Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 also mention the subfamilies Argyrodinae Simon, 1881a: 14 (sub Argyrodini) and Latrodectinae Petrunkevitch, 1928: 117 (junior synyonym of Dipoeninae Simon, 1894a: 561, sub Dipoeneae).

Gen. Spheropistha Yaginuma, 1957 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03646

type Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1957; gender feminine

N.B.: transferred from the Theridiosomatidae to the Theridiidae by Brignoli, 1981a: 9, contra Levi & Levi, 1962: 28; removed from the synonymy of Argyrodes Simon, 1864 by Agnarsson, 2004: 480, after Yoshida, 2001d: 183-184, contra Tanikawa, 1998a: 22.

Transferred to other genera:

Spheropistha xinhua Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 -- see Argyrodes

Spheropistha huangsangensis (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039790

Argyrodes huangsangensis Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004b: 1, f. 1-4 (Df) Original description

Spheropistha huangsangensis Yin et al., 2012: 378, f. 160a-d (f, T from Argyrodes)

Spheropistha incursa (Gray & Anderson, 1989) | | Australia (New South Wales, Lord Howe Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007067

Argyrodes incursus Gray & Anderson, 1989: 25, f. 4-11 (Dmf) Original description

Spheropistha incursus Hu, 2024: 284 (T from Argyrodes)

Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1957 | | China, Korea, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007089 TYPE SPECIES

Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1957b: 15, f. 2A-E (Df) Original description

Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1960: 39, f. 39.6-8 (f)

Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1971: 39, f. 39.6-8 (f)

Spheropistha melanosoma Brignoli, 1981a: 16, f. 11-12 (f, Dm)

Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1986a: 53, f. 28.8 (mf)

Spheropistha melanosoma Chikuni, 1989b: 35, f. 29 (mf)

Argyrodes melanosoma Tanikawa, 1998a: 22, f. 3-5, 7, 8, 11, 13 (mf)

Spheropistha melanosoma Yoshida, 2001d: 190 (T from Argyrodes)

Spheropistha melanosoma Yoshida, 2003a: 141, f. 381-383 (mf)

Spheropistha melanosoma Agnarsson, 2004: 480 (T from Argyrodes confirmed)

Spheropistha melanosoma Kim & Shin, 2009: 65, f. 1-3 (m)

Spheropistha melanosoma Yoshida, 2009b: 384, f. 270-272 (mf)

Spheropistha melanosoma Hidaka, 2022c: 172, f. 5-6 (m)

Spheropistha melanosoma Lee et al., 2023a: 16, f. 1A-H (m)

Spheropistha melanosoma Hu, 2024: 284, f. 1A-F, 2A-G (mf)

Spheropistha miyashitai (Tanikawa, 1998) | | Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007099

Argyrodes miyashitai Tanikawa, 1998a: 23, f. 1-2, 6, 8, 10, 12 (Dmf) Original description

Spheropistha miyashitai Yoshida, 2001d: 184 (T from Argyrodes)

Spheropistha miyashitai Yoshida, 2003a: 142, f. 384-386 (mf)

Spheropistha miyashitai Agnarsson, 2004: 480 (T from Argyrodes confirmed)

Spheropistha miyashitai Yoshida, 2009b: 384, f. 273-275 (mf)

Spheropistha miyashitai Sato, 2012: 66, unnumbered f. (m)

Spheropistha miyashitai Vanuytven, 2021: 25, 259, f. A.11c-d, B.279a-b (m)

Spheropistha miyashitai Suzuki et al., 2025: 51, f. 8A-B (m)

Spheropistha nigroris (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000) | | Taiwan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007107

Argyrodes nigroris Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000: 125, f. 5-10 (Dmf) Original description

Spheropistha nigroris Yoshida, 2001d: 184 (T from Argyrodes)

Spheropistha nigroris Agnarsson, 2004: 480 (T from Argyrodes confirmed)

Spheropistha orbita (Zhu, 1998) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007110

Argyrodes orbitus Zhu, 1998: 221, f. 145A-D (Dmf) Original description

Argyrodes orbitus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 100, f. 47E-F, N (mf)

Spheropistha orbita Yoshida, 2001d: 184 (T from Argyrodes)

Spheropistha orbita Agnarsson, 2004: 480 (T from Argyrodes confirmed)

Argyrodes orbitus Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004b: 3, f. 9-15 (mf)

Spheropistha orbita Yin et al., 2012: 379, f. 161a-g (mf)

Spheropistha pingshan Lin & Li, 2022 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054898

Spheropistha pingshan Lin & Li in Lin et al., 2022c: 261, f. 56A-C, 57A-E, 58 (Dmf) Original description

Spheropistha rhomboides (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039791

Argyrodes rhomboides Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004b: 2, f. 5-8 (Df) Original description

Spheropistha rhomboides Yin et al., 2012: 381, f. 162a-d (f, T from Argyrodes)