Emertonella funebris (Hentz, 1850)

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA. Introduced to South Africa

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Taxonomic References
Theridion funebre Hentz, 1850: 276, pl. 9, f. 11 (Dm) Original description
Euryopis funebris Emerton, 1882: 27, pl. 5, f. 6 (m, Df)
Euryopis funebris Keyserling, 1886b: 49, pl. 12, f. 161 (f)
Euryopis funebris Emerton, 1902: 127, f. 303 (f)
Euryopis limbata Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 42 (misidentified per Levi, 1963a: 130)
Euryopis funebris Kaston, 1948: 97, f. 182-183, 199 (m)
Euryopis limbata Levi, 1954b: 26, f. 53, 65, 69, 83-84, 100, 120-121, 129 (mf; misidentified per Levi, 1963a: 130)
Euryopis funebris Levi, 1963a: 130 (removed from S of Euryopis limbata [nomen dubium], rejecting Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 42)
Euryopis funebris Griswold et al., 1998: 67, f. 16D (m)
Euryopis funebris Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 217, f. 2420-2422 (mf)
Euryopis funebris Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z: 33, 5 f. (mf)
Emertonella funebris Hu et al., 2026b: 287 (T from Euryopis)
References

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

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021z). The Theridiidae of South Africa. Part 1 A-P. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 69 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7515890 -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1882). New England spiders of the family Theridiidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 1-86. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1902). The common spiders of the United States. Ginn & Company Publ., Boston & London, 225 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.5617 -- Show included taxa

Griswold, C. E., Coddington, J. A., Hormiga, G. & Scharff, N. (1998). Phylogeny of the orb-web building spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae: Deinopoidea, Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 123(1): 1-99. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb01290.x -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1850). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 6(1, 2): 18-35, 271-295, pl. 3-4, 9-10. -- 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

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. -- 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

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- 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 Species transferred to new genus Hu et al., 2026b Species transferred from Euryopis Menge, 1868 to Emertonella Bryant, 1945
2023-02-10 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z
2023-02-10 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z Old value

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