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Genus: Phycosoma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Phycosoma ripa (Zhu, 1998)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007471

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Described:

Distribution: China

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Holotype: Museum of Hebei University (MHBU), Baoding, China f - (Zhu, 1998)

Taxonomic References

Dipoena ripa Zhu, 1998: 233, 376, f. 152A-D (Df) Original description

Dipoena ripa Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 112, f. 56C-D (f)

Phycosoma ripa Liu et al., 2025b: 325, f. 9c, e-f (f, T from Dipoena)

Phycosoma ripa Hu et al., 2026b: 197, f. 6A-F, 7A-B, 8A-F (Dm, f)

References

Hu, C. H., Zhang, H., Jiang, M. J. & Liu, F. J. (2026b). Re-delimitation of the genus Emertonella (Araneae, Theridiidae, Hadrotarsinae) and taxonomic notes on Euryopis and Phycosoma from China. ZooKeys 1270: 285-305. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1270.175743 -- Show included taxa

Liu, J. X., Liang, Y., Yin, H. Q. & Xu, X. (2025b). Molecular phylogeny of the hadrotarsine genera from East Asia provides new insights for their affinities and positions within cobweb spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae: Hadrotarsinae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution 25: 303-327. doi: 10.1007/s13127-025-00670-5 -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S. (1998). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing, 436 pp. -- 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
2026-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Hu et al., 2026b
2026-03-13	Species updated	Hu et al., 2026b	Old value
2025-07-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Liu et al., 2025b
2025-07-08	Species transferred to new genus	Liu et al., 2025b		Species transferred from Dipoena to Phycosoma