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. Yaginumena Yoshida, 2002 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03475

type Dipoena castrata Bösenberg & Strand, 1906; gender feminine

N.B.: considered by Yoshida, 2002a: 12 to include "the species of the D. nigra group designated by Levi (1953)" (Levi, 1953b: 9: Dipoena cathedralis, D. dorsata, D. chathami, D. appalachia, D. nigra) but only taxa explicitly transferred are listed here, until a wider, worldwide sample of taxa can be studied; considered part of Lasaeola Simon, 1881 by Wunderlich, 2008b: 283.

Transferred to other genera:

Yaginumena castrata (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) -- see Lasaeola

Yaginumena longisternum (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) -- see Lasaeola

Yaginumena maculosa (Yoshida & Ono, 2000) -- see Lasaeola

Yaginumena mutilata (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) -- see Lasaeola

Yaginumena uniforma (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) -- see Lasaeola

Yaginumena weidingguo Lin & Li, 2024 -- see Lasaeola

Yaginumena xuanzan Lin & Li, 2024 -- see Lasaeola