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. Gushangzao Lin & Li, 2024 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06126
type Gushangzao shiqian Lin & Li, 2024; gender masculine
Gushangzao andaoquan Lin & Li, 2024 | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061468
Gushangzao andaoquan Lin & Li in Lin et al., 2024c: 142, f. 6A, 7A (Dm) Original description
Gushangzao goemon Lin & Li, 2024 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.), China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059752
Dipoena pelorosa Tanikawa, 2017b: 8, f. 3A-F (mf; misidentified per Lin et al., 2024: 74)
Gushangzao goemon Lin & Li in Lin et al., 2024a: 74 (Dmf) Original description
Gushangzao goemon Lin et al., 2024c: 143, f. 6B, 7B (m)
Gushangzao pelorosus (Zhu, 1998) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007451
Dipoena pelorosa Zhu, 1998: 243, 376, f. 160A-E (Dmf) Original description
Dipoena pelorosa Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 112, f. 55I-J, O (mf)
Dipoena pelorosa Yin et al., 2012: 322, f. 125a-c (f)
Gushangzao pelorosus Lin et al., 2024a: 75, f. 64A, 65A, 66A, 74A-B (mf, T from Dipoena)
Dipoena pelorosa Liu et al., 2025b: 315, f. 4a-f (mf)
Gushangzao shiqian Lin & Li, 2024 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059751 TYPE SPECIES
Gushangzao shiqian Lin & Li in Lin et al., 2024a: 75, f. 64B, 65B, 66B, 72D-E (Dmf) Original description

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