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Genus: Gongylidioides Oi, 1960 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Gongylidioides insulanus (Paik, 1980)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012099

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Described:

Distribution: Russia (Far East), China, Korea

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Holotype: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing, China m of Gongylidioides kouqianensis - (Tu & Li, 2006b)
Paratype: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing, China 1m of Gongylidioides kouqianensis - (Tu & Li, 2006b)
Holotype: S. R. Son Private Collection, South Korea f - (Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 2022)
Paratype: S. R. Son Private Collection, South Korea 2f - (Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 2022)
Paratype: T. H. Jo Private Collection, South Korea 1f - (Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 2022)

Taxonomic References

Oedothorax insulanus Paik, 1980: 162, f. 9-21 (Df) Original description

Oedothorax insulanus Namkung, 2002: 205, f. 17.57a-b (f)

Oedothorax insulanus Namkung, 2003: 207, f. 17.57a-b (f)

Gongylidioides kouqianensis Tu & Li, 2006b: 59, f. 5A-G (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039900]

Oedothorax insulanus Seo, 2011c: 37, f. 11-16 (f, Dm)

Gongylidioides insulanus Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 2022: 535 (T from Oedothorax, S of Gongylidioides kouqianensis)

Gongylidioides insulanus Prokopenko, Ponomarev & Sergeev, 2024: 913, f. 1a-d (m; in f. as 2a-d)

References

Lin, S. W., Lopardo, L. & Uhl, G. (2022). Evolution of nuptial-gift-related male prosomal structures: taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the genus Oedothorax (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195(2): 417-584, suppl. figs S1-S5. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab033 -- Show included taxa

Namkung, J. (2002). The spiders of Korea. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co. Seoul, 648 pp. [[2001 in the book, but publ. in 2002 per Platnick]] -- Show included taxa

Namkung, J. (2003). The Spiders of Korea, 2nd. ed. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co. Seoul, 648 pp. -- Show included taxa

Paik, K. Y. (1980). The spider fauna of Dae Heuksan-do Isl., So Heuksan-do Isl. and Hong-do Isl., Jeunlanam-do, Korea. Kyungpook Educational Forum Kyungpook National University 22: 153-173. -- Show included taxa

Prokopenko, E. V., Ponomarev, A. V. & Sergeev, M. E. (2024). Spiders of the family Linyphiidae (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Sikhote-Alin Reserve. Amurian Zoological Journal 16(4): 906-923. doi: 10.33910/2686-9519-2024-16-4-906-923 -- Show included taxa

Seo, B. K. (2011c). Two species of the genus Oedothorax from Korea (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Quantitative Bio-Science 30(1): 35-39. -- Show included taxa

Tu, L. H. & Li, S. Q. (2006b). A review of Gongylidioides spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae) from China. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 113(1): 51-65. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.80339 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-12-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Prokopenko, Ponomarev & Sergeev, 2024
2024-12-27	Species distribution update	Prokopenko, Ponomarev & Sergeev, 2024	Old value
2024-09-30	Species distribution update	Tu & Li, 2006b	Old value
2022-06-02	Species synonymy	Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 2022		Gongylidioides kouqianensis synonymized with Gongylidioides insulanus
2022-06-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 2022
2022-06-02	Species transferred to new genus	Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 2022		Species transferred from Oedothorax to Gongylidioides
2015-12-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Seo, 2011c
2015-12-16	First description of male	Seo, 2011c	Old value