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

Emertonella scriptipes (Banks, 1908)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007741

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA, Mexico

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Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA mm ff - (Levi, 1954b)
Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m of Dipoenoides apachecus - (Levi, 1954b)

Taxonomic References

Euryopis scriptipes Banks, 1908: 206 (Dmf) Original description

Dipoenoides apachecus Chamberlin, 1925d: 215 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055501]

Euryopis scriptipes Levi, 1954b: 43, f. 59, 63, 79-80, 82, 97-99, 108-114, 116-119, 127-128 (mf, S of Dipoenoides apachecus)

Euryopis scriptipes Sánchez-Vega, Villegas-Guzmán & Durán-Barrón, 2019: 163, f. 4-6 (f)

Euryopis scriptipes Sánchez-Vega et al., 2023: 47, f. 1A-G (mf)

Emertonella scriptipes Hu et al., 2026b: 287 (T from Euryopis)

References

Banks, N. (1908). New species of Theridiidae. The Canadian Entomologist 40(6): 205-208. doi: 10.4039/Ent40205-6 -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1925d). Diagnoses of new American Arachnida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 67: 209-248. -- 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

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

Sánchez-Vega, U., Villegas-Guzmán, G. A. & Durán-Barrón, C. G. (2019). Dos nuevos registros de terídidos (Araneae: Theridiidae) para San Luis Potosí y el Estado de México, México. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 34: 163-165. -- Show included taxa

Sánchez-Vega, U., Vargas-Mendoza, C. F., Callejas-Chavero, A., Flores-Martínez, A. & Villegas-Guzmán, G. A. (2023). Primer registro de Euryopis scriptipes Banks, 1908 (Araneae: Theridiidae) para Hidalgo, México con datos sobre su distribución en Norteamérica. Acta Zoológica Lilloana 67(1): 45-50. doi: 10.30550/j.azl/2023.67.1/2023-01-09 -- 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	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
2025-01-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Sánchez-Vega et al., 2023
2019-07-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Sánchez-Vega, Villegas-Guzmán & Durán-Barrón, 2019