Emertonella taczanowskii (Keyserling, 1886)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007749

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Described:

Distribution: USA to Argentina. Introduced to Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan (Ryukyu Is.), New Guinea?

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Taxonomic References
Euryopis taczanowskii Keyserling, 1886b: 47, pl. 12, f. 160 (Df) Original description
Euryopis floricola Keyserling, 1886b: 261, pl. 21, f. 309 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065045]
Euryopis nigripes Banks, 1929: 86, pl. 3, f. 47, pl. 4, f. 60 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065047]
Euryopis dentata Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936b: 6, f. 10-11 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065044]
Euryopis rosascostai Mello-Leitão, 1944b: 325, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065048]
Euryopis nigripes Levi, 1954b: 24, f. 38-52 (mf, S of Euryopis dentata)
Euryopis taczanowskii Levi, 1963a: 132, f. 10 (S of Euryopis floricola, E. nigripes and E. rosascostai)
Euryopis taczanowskii Levi, 1967c: 178, f. 37-41 (mf)
Euryopis taczanowskii Yoshida, 1992a: 139, f. 1-4 (mf)
Euryopis taczanowskii Zhu, 1998: 37, f. 17D (m; f f. 17A-C see Emertonella deplanata)
Euryopis taczanowskii Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 123, f. 63G (m; f f. 63C-D see Emertonella deplanata)
Emertonella taczanowskii Yoshida, 2002a: 17, f. 31-34 (mf, T from Euryopis)
Emertonella taczanowskii Yoshida, 2003a: 187, f. 524-527 (mf)
Emertonella taczanowskii Yoshida, 2009b: 393, f. 357-359 (mf)
Emertonella taczanowskii Yin et al., 2012: 329, f. 130f (m; f f. 130a-e see Emertonella deplanata)
Emertonella taczanowskii Almaraz-López et al., 2025: 139, f. 5a-b, l (f)
Emertonella taczanowskii Hu et al., 2026b: 291, f. 1D-F, 2E-F, 3C-D, 5A-F (mf)
References

Almaraz-López, A. C., García-Vázquez, A. A., García-García, M. Á. & Martínez-Martínez, L. (2025). Contribución al conocimiento de arañas «Arachnida: Araneae» en Putla Villa de Guerrero, Oaxaca, México. Tequio 7(19): 129-143. -- Show included taxa

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

Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S. (1936b). New spiders from Texas. American Museum Novitates 863: 1-22. -- Show included taxa

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

Keyserling, E. (1886b). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. II. Hälfte. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 295 pp., pl. 11-21. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1954b). Spiders of the genus Euryopis from North and Central America (Araneae, Theridiidae). American Museum Novitates 1666: 1-48. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1963a). American spiders of the genera Audifia, Euryopis and Dipoena (Araneae: Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 129(2): 121-185, pl. 1-12. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1967c). Cosmopolitan and pantropical species of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae). Pacific Insects 9: 175-186. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1944b). Arañas de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S., Zool.) 3: 311-393. -- 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

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press Changsha, 1590 pp. -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (1992a). Two species of the genus Euryopis (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 41(2): 139-142. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.41.139 -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (2002a). A revision of the Japanese genera and species of the subfamily Hadrotarsinae (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica 51(1): 7-18. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.51.7 -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (2003a). The spider family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Japan. Arachnological Society of Japan, 224 pp. -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (2009b). Uloboridae, Theridiidae, Ctenidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 142-147, 356-393, 467-468. -- 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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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2026-03-13 New taxonomic reference entry Hu et al., 2026b
2026-03-13 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to other taxon
2026-03-13 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to other taxon
2025-12-03 New taxonomic reference entry Almaraz-López et al., 2025
2025-10-20 New taxonomic reference entry Khan, Baset & Ali, 2025
2025-10-20 Species distribution update Khan, Baset & Ali, 2025 Old value
2016-02-05 New taxonomic reference entry Rajoria, 2015d
2016-02-05 Species distribution update Rajoria, 2015d Old value
2014-08-11 Species distribution update Old value
2014-03-03 Species distribution update Gao & Li, 2014 Old value

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