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

Emertonella emiliae (Lecigne, 2023)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059201

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Described:

Distribution: Greece

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (72731) - (Lecigne, 2023)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1m (72730) - (Lecigne, 2023)

Taxonomic References

Euryopis emiliae Lecigne, 2023: 21, 15A-H (Dm) Original description

Emertonella emiliae Hu et al., 2026b: 287 (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

Lecigne, S. (2023). New contribution to the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of Kerkyra (Corfu) and update of the provisional checklist of species from the Ionian Island. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 38(1, supplement): 1-51. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2023-09-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Lecigne, 2023
2023-09-21	New species inserted	Lecigne, 2023