Coscinida

Coscinida
Coscinida japonica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Coscinida Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
C. tibialis Simon, 1895
Species
17, see text
Synonyms[1]
Loxonychia Tullgren, 1910[2] Theridiella Tullgren, 1910[2]

Coscinida is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[3]

Species

As of May 2020^[update] it contains seventeen species, found in Asia, Europe, and Africa:[1]

• Coscinida asiatica Zhu & Zhang, 1992 – China
• Coscinida conica Yang, Irfan & Peng, 2019 – China
• Coscinida coreana Paik, 1995 – Korea
• Coscinida decemguttata Miller, 1970 – Congo
• Coscinida gentilis Simon, 1895 – Sri Lanka
• Coscinida hunanensis Yin, Peng & Bao, 2006 – China
• Coscinida japonica Yoshida, 1994 – Japan
• Coscinida leviorum Locket, 1968 – Angola
• Coscinida lugubris (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
• Coscinida novemnotata Simon, 1895 – Sri Lanka
• Coscinida proboscidea Simon, 1899 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Coscinida propinqua Miller, 1970 – Angola
• Coscinida shimenensis Yin, Peng & Bao, 2006 – China
• Coscinida tibialis Simon, 1895 (type) – Africa, southern Europe, Turkey, Israel, Yemen. Introduced to Thailand
• Coscinida triangulifera Simon, 1904 – Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Java)
• Coscinida ulleungensis Paik, 1995 – Korea
• Coscinida yei Yin & Bao, 2012 – China

Formerly included:

• C. subtilis Simon, 1895 (Transferred to Stemmops)

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

References

1. "Gen. Coscinida Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
2. Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 23.
3. Simon, E. (1895). "Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 64: 131–160.