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

Emertonella spinifera (Mello-Leitão, 1944)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007743

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Argentina

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Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Acanthomysmena spinifera Mello-Leitão, 1944, (02316); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Acanthomysmena spinifera Mello-Leitão, 1944b: 324, f. 4 (Dm) Original description

Euryopis spinifera Levi, 1963a: 133, f. 20 (m)

Euryopis spinifera González, 1990: 47, f. 1-9 (m, Df)

Emertonella spinifera Hu et al., 2026b: 288 (T from Euryopis)

References

González, A. (1990). Nota sobre Euryopis spinifera (Mello Leitão, 1944) (Araneae, Theridiidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 48: 47-52. -- 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. (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

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

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 transferred to new genus	Hu et al., 2026b		Species transferred from Euryopis Menge, 1868 to Emertonella Bryant, 1945
2021-05-06	Species distribution update	Rodrigues, Marta & Figueiredo, 2021	Old value