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Genus: Emertonella Bryant, 1945 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Emertonella deplanata (Schenkel, 1936)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007696

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Described:

Distribution: Pakistan, India, China

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Taxonomic References

Euryopis deplanata Schenkel, 1936b: 45, f. 13 (Df) Original description

Euryopis taczanowskii Zhu, 1998: 37, f. 17A-C (f; misidentified per Hu et al., 2026b: 288)

Euryopis deplanata Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 123 (may be a S of Euryopis taczanowskii)

Euryopis taczanowskii Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 123, f. 63C-D (f; misidentified per Hu et al., 2026b: 288)

Emertonella taczanowskii Yin et al., 2012: 329, f. 130a-e (f; misidentified per Hu et al., 2026b: 288)

Emertonella taczanowskii Rajoria, 2015d: 46, f. 5-8 (f; misidentified per Hu et al., 2026b: 288)

Emertinella taczanowskii Khan, Baset & Ali, 2025: 135, f. 14-15 (f, lapsus; misidentified per Hu et al., 2026b: 288)

Emertonella deplanata Hu et al., 2026b: 288, f. 1A-C, 2A-D, 3A-B, 4A-F (Dm, f, T from Euryopis)

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

Khan, M. S., Baset, A. & Ali, P. A. (2025). New records of spiders: Araneae, Pisauridae, Salticidae, and Theridiidae from Pakistan. Asian Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology 4(1): 131-139. doi: 10.47264/idea.ajset/4.1.8 -- Show included taxa

Rajoria, A. (2015d). Two new genera of the family Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833 (Arachnida: Araneae) from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(2): 43-47. -- Show included taxa

Schenkel, E. (1936b). Schwedisch-chinesische wissenschaftliche Expedition nach den nordwestlichen Provinzen Chinas, unter Leitung von Dr. Sven Hedin und Prof. Sü Ping-chang. Araneae gesammelt vom schwedischen Arzt der Expedition Dr. David Hummel 1927–1930. Arkiv för Zoologi 29(A1): 1-314. -- 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

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	Zhu, 1998
2026-03-13	First description of male	Hu et al., 2026b
2026-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Hu et al., 2026b
2026-03-13	Species distribution update	Hu et al., 2026b	Old value
2026-03-13	Species transferred to new genus	Hu et al., 2026b		Species transferred from Euryopis Menge, 1868 to Emertonella Bryant, 1945