Neospintharus

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)

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

References