Coleosoma acutiventer (Keyserling, 1884)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007289

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Described:

Distribution: USA to Argentina


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Taxonomic References
Achaea acutiventer Keyserling, 1884a: 113, pl. 5, f. 74 (Df) Original description
Coleosoma flavipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895a: 154, pl. 19, 12 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062109]
Argyrodes floridana Banks, 1900a: 98 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062110]
Theridion flavipes Petrunkevitch, 1911: 195
Chrysso nigripalpis Banks, 1929: 85, pl. 3, f. 46, pl. 4, f. 72 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062113]
Theridion nigripalpe Roewer, 1942a: 495
Theridion acutiventer Roewer, 1942a: 489
Achaea index Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 36, f. 87, 105 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062111]
Coleosoma flavipes Bryant, 1944: 52, f. 1, 4, 7, 9 (m, Df, T from Theridion)
Chrysso flavipes Kaston, 1945b: 4 (S of Achaea index)
Coleosoma flavipes Levi, 1957c: 60 (S of Theridion nigripalpis)
Coleosoma acutiventer Levi, 1959a: 4, f. 6-11 (mf, T from Theridion, S of Argyrodes floridana and Coleosoma flavipes)
Coleosoma acutiventer Breene et al., 1993: 60, f. 30A-D (mf)
Coleosoma acutiventer Sherwood et al., 2026c: 24, f. 17A-C (m)
References

Banks, N. (1900a). Some new North American spiders. The Canadian Entomologist 32(4): 96-102. doi: 10.4039/Ent3296-4 -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1929). Spiders from Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 69: 53-96. -- Show included taxa

Breene, R. G., Dean, D. A., Nyffeler, M. & Edwards, G. B. (1993). Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station College Station, 115 pp. -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1944). Three species of Coleosoma from Florida (Araneae; Theridiidae). Psyche, Cambridge 51(1-2): 51-58. doi: 10.1155/1944/42363 -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1944). Spiders of the Georgia region of North America. Bulletin of the University of Utah 35(9): 1-267. -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1945b). New Micryphantidae and Dictynidae with notes on other spiders. American Museum Novitates 1292: 1-14. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1884a). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. I. Hälfte. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 222 pp., pl. 1-10. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1957c). The spider genera Chrysso and Tidarren in America. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 63: 59-81. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1959a). The spider genus Coleosoma (Araneae, Theridiidae). Breviora 110: 1-8. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1895a). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 145-160. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1942a). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung für Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy Bremen, 1040 pp. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Mukhida, F., Connor, R. A., Hughes, G., Carter, D., Curtis, I., Hochart, J., Gumbs, K., Gumbs, J. C., Buckmire, Z., Morrishaw, Z., Child, N. & Bosquet, I. V. (2026c). New data on the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Anguilla, Lesser Antilles with description of seven new species. Faunitaxys 14(22): 1-30. doi: 10.57800/faunitaxys-14(22) -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2026-03-19 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood et al., 2026c
2017-02-11 Species distribution update Old value

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