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Genus: Chthonopes Wunderlich, 2011 | Family: Theridiosomatidae Simon, 1881

Chthonopes assamensis (Fage, 1924)

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Described:

Distribution: India, China

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Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m - (Brignoli, 1981a)
Paralectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1f - (Brignoli, 1981a)
Paralectotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India 5f (2115/18; in total 9f in the original description) - (Dutta et al., 2026)

Taxonomic References

Vendilgarda assamensis Fage, 1924: 64, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description

Wendilgarda assamensis Brignoli, 1981a: 15, f. 5-8 (mf)

Wendilgarda assamensis Song & Zhu, 1994: 39, f. 5A-C (f)

Wendilgarda assamensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 149, f. 84A-B (mf)

Wendilgarda assamensis Wunderlich, 2011: 434, f. 19-20 (mf; misplaced in this genus)

Chthonopes assamensis Dutta et al., 2026: 295, f. 3A-H, 4A-B (f, T from Wendilgarda)

References

Brignoli, P. M. (1981a). Spiders from the Philippines IV. A new Ogulnius and notes on some other Oriental and Japanese Theridiosomatidae (Araneae). Acta Arachnologica 30(1): 9-19. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.30.9 -- Show included taxa

Dutta, S., Goswami, R., Sudhin, P. P., Sen, S. & Banerjee, D. (2026). Taxonomic notes on the ray spider family Theridiosomatidae Simon, 1881 (Arachnida: Araneae) from India. Zootaxa 5821(2): 291-300. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5821.2.10 [[Zoobank: 8CE6D7CA-84BA-4F37-8C14-02AA0818DDBD]] -- Show included taxa

Fage, L. (1924). Araneids from the Siju Cave, Garo Hills, Assam. Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta 26: 63-67. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X. & Zhu, M. S. (1994). On some species of cave arachnids of China. In: Chen, Y. Z. (ed.) Sixtieth Anniversary of the Founding of China Zoological Society: Memorial Volume Dedicated to the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birthday of the Late Prof. Sisan Chen (Z. Chen). China Science and Technology Press, Beijing, pp. 35-46. -- 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

Wunderlich, J. (2011). Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640. [[publ. in April]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-05-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Dutta et al., 2026
2026-05-30	Species transferred to new genus	Dutta et al., 2026		Species transferred from Wendilgarda Keyserling, 1886 to Chthonopes Wunderlich, 2011