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Genus: Platnickina Koçak & Kemal, 2008 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Platnickina obscurata (Zhu, 1998)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008572

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Described:

Distribution: China

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Holotype: Museum of Hebei University (MHBU), Baoding, China f - (Zhu, 1998)

Taxonomic References

Theridion obscuratum Zhu, 1998: 167, f. 105A-D (Df) Original description

Theridion obscuratum Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 138, f. 77G-H (f)

Theridion obscuratum Zhang & Jin, 2016: 620, f. 1a-b, 2a-e, 3a-d (Dm, f)

Theridion obscuratum Zhou, Irfan & Peng, 2024: 3, f. 3A-D (m)

Platnickina obscuratum Huang, Liu & Hu, 2025: 141, f. 4A-D, 5A-D, 6A-F (mf, T from Theridion)

References

Huang, G. L., Liu, J. & Hu, C. H. (2025). Taxonomic notes of the cobweb spider genus Platnickina Koçak & Kemal, 2008 (Araneae, Theridiidae, Theridiinae), with descriptions of two new species from southern China. ZooKeys 1250: 135-154. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1250.158643 -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, F. & Jin, C. (2016). First description of the male of Theridion obscuratum Zhu, 1998 (Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of Hebei University, Natural Science Edition 36(3): 620-622. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-1565.2016.06.009 -- Show included taxa

Zhou, G. C., Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2024). Notes on the comb-footed spiders of genus Theridion (Araneae: Theridiidae), with description of a new species from Yuelushan Mt., China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 33(1): 1-7. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1005 9628.2024.01.001 -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S. (1998). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing, 436 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-08-30	Species updated		Old value	Species epithet corrected
2025-08-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Huang, Liu & Hu, 2025
2025-08-30	Species transferred to new genus	Huang, Liu & Hu, 2025		Species transferred from Theridion to Platnickina
2024-05-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhou, Irfan & Peng, 2024
2018-09-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang & Jin, 2016
2018-09-05	First description of male	Zhang & Jin, 2016	Old value