| Neospintharus | |
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| N. trigonum, male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Neospintharus Exline, 19501 |
| Type species | |
| N. parvus Exline, 1950
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Neospintharus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by H. Exline in 1950.2 It was synonymized with Argyrodes in 1962,3 but revalidated in 2004.4
Species
As of September 2019 it contains thirteen species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Central America, Asia, Mexico, Turkey, the United States, and Canada:1
- Neospintharus baboquivari (Exline & Levi, 1962) – USA, Mexico
- Neospintharus baekamensis Seo, 2010 – Korea
- Neospintharus bicornis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – Brazil
- Neospintharus concisus (Exline & Levi, 1962) – Mexico
- Neospintharus fur (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Japan
- Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) – USA to El Salvador, Caribbean
- Neospintharus nipponicus (Kumada, 1990) – China, Korea, Japan
- Neospintharus obscurus (Keyserling, 1884) – Peru
- Neospintharus parvus Exline, 1950 (type) – Panama to Ecuador
- Neospintharus rioensis (Exline & Levi, 1962) – Brazil, Argentina
- Neospintharus syriacus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Turkey, Lebanon, Israel
- Neospintharus triangularis (Taczanowski, 1873) – Panama, French Guiana
- Neospintharus trigonum (Hentz, 1850) – USA, Canada
In synonymy:
- N. bifissus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) = Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)
- N. frontatus (Banks, 1908) = Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)
- N. gansuensis (Zhu, 1998) = Neospintharus fur (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
- N. montanus (Keyserling, 1884) = Neospintharus obscurus (Keyserling, 1884)
References
References
- "Gen. Neospintharus Exline, 1950". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
- Exline, H. (1950), "Conopisthine spiders (Theridiidae) from Peru and Ecuador", Studies Honoring Trevor Kincaid
- Exline, H.; Levi, H. W. (1962). "American spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 75–204.
- Agnarsson, I. (2004). "Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 141 (4): 447–626. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x.