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. Asiopisinus Hu, Wei, Liu & Xu, 2025 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06323

type Asiopisinus Hu, Wei, Liu & Xu, 2025; gender masculine

In synonymy:

Asiopisinus bicornutus (Yoshida, 1983) = Asiopisinus nubilus (Yaginuma, 1960) (Yoshida, 1985b: 27, sub Episinus)

Asiopisinus anfu (Liang, Liu, Yin & Yu, 2025) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063839

Episinus anfu Liang et al., 2025: 5, f. 1A-F, 2A-B (Df) Original description

Asiopisinus anfu Hu et al., 2025a: 478 (T from Episinus)

Asiopisinus baoshanensis (Liu, Irfan & Peng, 2019) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051391

Episinus baoshanensis Liu, Irfan & Peng, 2019b: 399, f. 4A-D, 5A-B (Dm) Original description

Asiopisinus baoshanensis Hu et al., 2025a: 478 (T from Episinus)

Asiopisinus cheni Hu, Wei, Liu & Xu, 2025 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065532 TYPE SPECIES

Asiopisinus cheni Hu et al., 2025a: 478, f. 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A-B, 6A-F, 7A-B, 14A-B, 15A-B, 16A-B (Dmf) Original description

Asiopisinus implicatus (Liang, Liu, Yin & Yu, 2025) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063840

Episinus implicatus Liang et al., 2025: 11, f. 3A-F, 4A-B (Df) Original description

Asiopisinus implicatus Hu et al., 2025a: 482, f. 2B, 4C, 8A-F, 9A-B, 14C-D, 15C-D, 16C-D (Dm, f, T from Episinus)

Asiopisinus nubilus (Yaginuma, 1960) | | Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007658

Episinus nubilus Yaginuma, 1960: append. 3, pl. 11, f. 66, f. 38, 101E (Dmf) Original description

Episinus nubilus Namkung, 1964: 34, f. 9 (f)

Episinus nubilus Yaginuma, 1971: 39, f. 38 (f)

Episinus nubilus Nishikawa, 1977b: 359, f. 9-10 (mf)

Episinus bicornutus Yoshida, 1983a: 76, f. 11 (Dm; f see Asiopisinus yoshidai) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055270]

Episinus nubilus Hu, 1984: 163, f. 169.1-2 (f)

Episinus bicornutus Seo, 1985b: 97, f. 1-4 (m)

Episinus nubilus Yoshida, 1985b: 27, f. 13-15 (mf, S of Episinus bicornutus)

Episinus nubilus Yaginuma, 1986a: 46, f. 25.2 (mf)

Episinus bicornutus Song, 1987: 124, f. 84 (mf)

Episinus nubilus Kumada, 1989: 39, f. 1-5 (mf)

Episinus nubilus Chikuni, 1989b: 38, f. 40 (mf)

Episinus bicornutus Chen & Zhang, 1991: 147, f. 142.1-4 (mf)

Episinus nubilus Song, Zhu & Li, 1993: 858, f. 11A-C (mf)

Episinus nubilus Okuma, 1994: 12, f. 5A-E (mf)

Episinus nubilus Zhu, 1998: 267, f. 178A-F (mf)

Episinus nubilus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 119, f. 61G-H, P-Q (mf)

Episinus nubilus Namkung, 2002: 123, f. 13.41a-b (mf)

Episinus nubilus Kim & Cho, 2002: 303, f. 805-810 (m)

Episinus nubilus Namkung, 2003: 125, f. 13.41a-b (mf)

Episinus nubilus Yoshida, 2003a: 56, f. 122-125, 559 (mf)

Episinus nubilus Yoshida, 2009b: 367, f. 96-97 (mf)

Episinus nubilus Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 98, f. 57A-E (mf)

Episinus nubilus Yin et al., 2012: 345, f. 140a-e (mf)

Episinus nubilus Jin, 2018: 22, f. 4-11.A-G, pl. 5 (mf)

Episinus nubilus Kim, 2021: 69, f. 27A-G, pl. 14 (mf)

Asiopisinus nubilus Hu et al., 2025a: 483, f. 1B, 2C, 3B, D, 4D-E, 10A-F, 11A-B, 14E-F, 15E-F, 16E-F (mf, T from Episinus)

Asiopisinus ornithorrhynchus (F. J. Liu, Agnarsson, J. Liu & Zhu, 2022) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056078

Episinus ornithorrhynchus Liu et al., 2022f: 35, f. 1A-D, 2A-E, 3A-B (Dmf) Original description

Asiopisinus ornithorhynchus Hu et al., 2025a: 483, f. 2D, 3C, 4F, 12A-F, 13A-B, 14G-H, 15G-H, 16G-H (mf, lapsus, T from Episinus)

Asiopisinus pseudonubilus (Liang, Liu, Yin & Yu, 2025) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063841

Episinus pseudonubilus Liang et al., 2025: 12, f. 5A-F, 6A-C, 7A-F, 8A-B (Dmf) Original description

Asiopisinus pseudonubilus Hu et al., 2025a: 484 (T from Episinus)

Asiopisinus yoshidai (Okuma, 1994) | | Taiwan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007683

Episinus bicornutus Yoshida, 1983a: 76, f. 9-10 (f; misidentified per Okuma, 1994: 15)

Episinus yoshidai Okuma, 1994: 15, f. 7A-C (Dmf) Original description

Episinus yoshidai Zhu, 1998: 269, f. 179A-D (mf)

Episinus yoshidai Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 119, f. 62F-G, K (mf)

Asiopisinus yoshidai Hu et al., 2025a: 484 (T from Episinus)