World Spider Catalog

Genus: Emertonella Bryant, 1945 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Emertonella mallah (Zakerzade, Moradmand & Jäger, 2022)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056292

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Described:

Distribution: Iran

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (71840) - (Zakerzade, Moradmand & Jäger, 2022)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1f (71841) - (Zakerzade, Moradmand & Jäger, 2022)
Paratype: Natural History Museum, Isfahan, Iran 1m - (Zakerzade, Moradmand & Jäger, 2022)

Taxonomic References

Euryopis mallah Zakerzade, Moradmand & Jäger, 2022: 632, f. 1A-B, 2A-D, 3A-C (Dmf) Original description

Emertonella mallah Hu et al., 2026b: 288 (T from Euryopis)

References

Hu, C. H., Zhang, H., Jiang, M. J. & Liu, F. J. (2026b). Re-delimitation of the genus Emertonella (Araneae, Theridiidae, Hadrotarsinae) and taxonomic notes on Euryopis and Phycosoma from China. ZooKeys 1270: 285-305. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1270.175743 -- Show included taxa

Zakerzade, R., Moradmand, M. & Jäger, P. (2022). A new ant-hunting cobweb spider, Euryopis mallah sp. n. (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Iran. Arachnology 19(3): 632-634. doi: 10.13156/arac.2022.19.3.632 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2026-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Hu et al., 2026b
2026-03-13	Species transferred to new genus	Hu et al., 2026b	Species transferred from Euryopis Menge, 1868 to Emertonella Bryant, 1945
2022-11-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Zakerzade, Moradmand & Jäger, 2022
2022-11-02	New species inserted	Zakerzade, Moradmand & Jäger, 2022