World Spider Catalog

Genus: Spheropistha Yaginuma, 1957 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Spheropistha nigroris (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007107

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007107

Described:

Distribution: Taiwan

External Resources*: GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan m - (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000)
Paratype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan 1f - (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000)
Paratype: Tunghai University (THU), Taichung, Taiwan 1f (Ar-970004) - (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000)

Taxonomic References

Argyrodes nigroris Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000: 125, f. 5-10 (Dmf) Original description

Spheropistha nigroris Yoshida, 2001d: 184 (T from Argyrodes)

Spheropistha nigroris Agnarsson, 2004: 480 (T from Argyrodes confirmed)

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

Yoshida, H., Tso, I. M. & Severinghaus, L. L. (2000). The spider family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Orchid Island, Taiwan: descriptions of six new and one newly recorded species. Zoological Studies 39(2): 123-132. -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (2001d). The genus Rhomphaea (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan, with notes on the subfamily Argyrodinae. Acta Arachnologica 50(2): 183-192. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.50.183 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

No logging data available so far.