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Genus: Stemmops O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Stemmops ornatus (Bryant, 1933)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008153

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Described:

Distribution: USA, Guatemala

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Levi, 1955c)
Holotype: Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA m of Euryopis orniceps - (Levi, 1955c)

Taxonomic References

Euryopis ornata Bryant, 1933a: 172, pl. 1, f. 2-3 (Dm) Original description

Euryopis orniceps Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 43, f. 86, 123 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055265]

Stemmops ornata Levi, 1954b: 3 (m, T from Euryopis, S of Euryopis orniceps)

Stemmops ornata Levi, 1955c: 341, f. 16, 21-22, 29-30 (m, Df)

Stemmops ornatus Levi, 1964f: 77

Stemmops ornatus Chamé-Vázquez & Jiménez, 2025c: 1, f. 1c (m)

References

Bryant, E. B. (1933a). New and little known spiders from the United States. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 74: 171-193. -- Show included taxa

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

Chamé-Vázquez, D. & Jiménez, M.-L. (2025c). New records of Stemmops cambridgei and Stemmops ornatus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Guatemala. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 84(3, e0309): 1-3. doi: 10.25085/rsea.840309 -- 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. (1955c). The spider genera Oronota and Stemmops in North America, Central America and the West Indies (Araneae: Theridiidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 48(1): 333-342. doi: 10.1093/aesa/48.5.333 -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1964f). The spider genera Stemmops, Chrosiothes, and the new genus Cabello from America. Psyche, Cambridge 71(2): 73-92. doi: 10.1155/1964/60425 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-10-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Chamé-Vázquez & Jiménez, 2025c
2025-10-02	Species distribution update	Chamé-Vázquez & Jiménez, 2025c	Old value