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Genus: Rhomphaea L. Koch, 1872 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Rhomphaea fictilium (Hentz, 1850)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007038

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Described:

Distribution: Canada to Argentina

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Taxonomic References

Theridion fictilium Hentz, 1850: 282, pl. 10, f. 4 (Dmf) Original description

Argyrodes fictilium Emerton, 1882: 24, pl. 5, f. 2 (f)

Ariamnes fictilium Keyserling, 1884a: 170

Rhomphaea fictilium Simon, 1894a: 502

Argyrodes fictilium Emerton, 1902: 126, f. 300-301 (f)

Rhomphaea remota Bryant, 1940: 308, f. 74 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055531]

Argyrodes fictilium Exline & Levi, 1962: 103, f. 6-7, 26-28 (mf, removed from S of Rhomphaea lacerta [rejecting Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 45, see Tetragnatha lacerta], S of Argyrodes remotus)

Argyrodes fictilium Paquin & Dupérré, 2001: 238, f. 1 (m)

Argyrodes fictilium Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 214, f. 2385-2389 (mf)

Rhomphaea fictilium Agnarsson, 2004: 480 (T from Argyrodes)

Rhomphaea fictilium Baert et al., 2023: 33, f. 122A-D (mf)

References

Agnarsson, I. (2004). Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 447-626. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x -- Show included taxa

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [[includes figs of 5 undescribed species]] -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1940). Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 86: 247-532. -- 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

Exline, H. & Levi, H. W. (1962). American spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 127: 75-204. -- 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

Keyserling, E. (1884a). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. I. Hälfte. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 222 pp., pl. 1-10. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2001). On the distribution and phenology of Argyrodes fictilium (Araneae, Theridiidae) at its northern limit of North America. Journal of Arachnology 29: 238-243. -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1894a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 489-760. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-12-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Baert et al., 2023