World Spider Catalog

Genus: Asiopisinus Hu, Wei, Liu & Xu, 2025 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Asiopisinus ornithorrhynchus (F. J. Liu, Agnarsson, J. Liu & Zhu, 2022)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056078

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Described:

Distribution: China

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Centre for Behavioral Ecology and Evolution (CBEE), College of Life Sciences [= Museum of Hubei University (MHU)], Hubei University, Wuhan, China m - (Liu et al., 2022f)
Paratype: Centre for Behavioral Ecology and Evolution (CBEE), College of Life Sciences [= Museum of Hubei University (MHU)], Hubei University, Wuhan, China 1m 4f - (Liu et al., 2022f)

Taxonomic References

Episinus ornithorrhynchus Liu et al., 2022f: 35, f. 1A-D, 2A-E, 3A-B (Dmf) Original description

Asiopisinus ornithorhynchus Hu et al., 2025a: 483, f. 2D, 3C, 4F, 12A-F, 13A-B, 14G-H, 15G-H, 16G-H (mf, lapsus, T from Episinus)

References

Hu, C. H., Wei, M., Liu, J. & Xu, X. (2025a). Asiopisinus gen. nov., a new genus of the family Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833 (Araneae, Theridiidae) from eastern Asia. Zootaxa 5660(4): 475-504. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.2 -- Show included taxa

Liu, F. J., Agnarsson, I., Liu, J. & Zhu, Y. (2022f). Description and phylogenetic analysis of two new Episinus (Aranea [sic], Theridiidae) species from China. ZooKeys 1125: 33-46. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1125.90212 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2025-07-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Hu et al., 2025a
2025-07-12	Species transferred to new genus	Hu et al., 2025a	Species transferred from Episinus to Asiopisinus
2022-10-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Liu et al., 2022f
2022-10-19	New species inserted	Liu et al., 2022f