- Source: Rhomphaea
Rhomphaea is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872.
Species
As of June 2020 it contains thirty-three species, found worldwide:
Rhomphaea aculeata Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
Rhomphaea affinis Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique
Rhomphaea altissima Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Brazil
Rhomphaea angulipalpis Thorell, 1877 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
Rhomphaea annulipedis Yoshida & Nojima, 2010 – Japan
Rhomphaea barycephala (Roberts, 1983) – Seychelles (Aldabra)
Rhomphaea brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1920 – Venezuela, Brazil
Rhomphaea ceraosus (Zhu & Song, 1991) – China
Rhomphaea cometes L. Koch, 1872 (type) – New Guinea, Samoa, French Polynesia
Rhomphaea cona (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
Rhomphaea fictilium (Hentz, 1850) – Canada to Argentina
Rhomphaea hyrcana (Logunov & Marusik, 1990) – Georgia, Azerbaijan, China, Japan, Turkey?
Rhomphaea irrorata Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
Rhomphaea labiata (Zhu & Song, 1991) – India, China, Korea, Laos, Japan
Rhomphaea lactifera Simon, 1909 – Vietnam
Rhomphaea longicaudata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 – Greece, Lebanon
Rhomphaea metaltissima Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Panama to Brazil
Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873) – Canary Is., Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Africa, St. Helena
Rhomphaea oris (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
Rhomphaea ornatissima Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
Rhomphaea palmarensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873) – St. Vincent, Mexico to Brazil
Rhomphaea pignalitoensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
Rhomphaea procera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Costa Rica to Argentina
Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 – USA to Argentina. Introduced to India
Rhomphaea recurvata (Saaristo, 1978) – Seychelles
Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873) – Canary Is., Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece
Rhomphaea sagana (Dönitz & Strand, 1906) – Azerbaijan, Russia (Far East), Japan, Philippines
Rhomphaea sinica (Zhu & Song, 1991) – China
Rhomphaea sjostedti Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
Rhomphaea tanikawai Yoshida, 2001 – China, Japan
Rhomphaea urquharti (Bryant, 1933) – New Zealand
Rhomphaea velhaensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Brazil
In synonymy:
R. argenteola (Simon, 1873) = Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873)
R. canariensis (Schmidt, 1956) = Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873)
R. delicatula (Simon, 1883) = Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873)
R. feioi (Mello-Leitão, 1947) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
R. honesta (Exline & Levi, 1962) = Rhomphaea brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1920
R. longa (Kulczyński, 1905) = Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873)
R. martinae (Exline, 1950) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
R. petrunkevitchi (Mello-Leitão, 1945) = Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873)
R. remota (Bryant, 1940) = Rhomphaea fictilium (Hentz, 1850)
R. simoni (Petrunkevitch, 1911) = Rhomphaea procera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898)
R. spinicaudata (Keyserling, 1884) = Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873)
R. spinosa (Badcock, 1932) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
See also
List of Theridiidae species
References
Further reading
Agnarsson, I. (2004). "Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 141 (4): 447–626.
Exline, H.; Levi, H. W. (1962). "American spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 75–204.
Yoshida, H. (2001). "The genus Rhomphaea (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan, with notes on the subfamily Argyrodinae". Acta Arachnologica. 50: 183–192.
Song, D. X.; Zhu, M. S.; Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang. p. 640.
Zhu, M. S. (1998). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing. p. 436.