Family: Theridiidae

Dipoena Thorell, 1869

GENUS |   ACCEPTED

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Umfila Keyserling, 1886b: 256 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05684] (type U. granulata Keyserling, 1886) and Stictoxena Simon, 1895g: 138 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05683] (type S. sertata Simon, 1895) by Levi & Levi, 1962: 28, 32; restricted by Wunderlich, 1988: 149 to the type species, D. melanogaster (C. L. Koch, 1837), with other species being assigned to the resurrected junior synonym Lasaeola Simon, 1881 or to Dipoenata Wunderlich, 1988; most species were unplaced by Wunderlich, and only those few taxa definitely assigned by him are listed here as being transferred; not a senior synonym of Trigonobothrys Simon, 1889 (Yoshida, 2002a: 14, contra Levi & Levi, 1962: 25-32), Pselothorax Chamberlin, 1949: 541 (transferred from the Linyphiidae) (Yoshida, 2002a: 13, contra Ivie, 1967: 126) and Paoningia Schenkel, 1936b: 41 (transferred to Phycosoma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880 by Liu et al., 2025b: 325).

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Last updated: 2025-11-17

Species counts

ACCEPTED: 152

SYNONYM: 19

NOMEN DUBIUM: 5

HOMONYM: 2

Taxonomic Reference
Original description Thorell, 1869: 91 type Atea melanogaster C. L. Koch, 1837; gender feminine
Reference

Thorell, T. (1869). On European spiders. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature [first part]. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis (3) 7(I, 5): 1-108. [[incl. pp. 109-242 from 1870]] -- Show included taxa

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