Emertonella

Emertonella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Emertonella Bryant, 1945[1]
Type species
E. emertoni (Bryant, 1933)
Species
5, see text

Emertonella is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by E. B. Bryant in 1945.[2]

Species

As of May 2020^[update] it contains five species, found in Asia, Mexico, the United States, Papua New Guinea, and Argentina:[1]

• Emertonella emertoni (Bryant, 1933) (type) – USA, Mexico
• Emertonella hainanica Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 – China
• Emertonella serrulata Gao & Li, 2014 – China
• Emertonella taczanowskii (Keyserling, 1886) – USA to Argentina. Introduced to India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan (Ryukyu Is.), New Guinea
• Emertonella trachypa Gao & Li, 2014 – China

In synonymy:

• E. dentata = Emertonella taczanowskii (Keyserling, 1886)
• E. floricola = Emertonella taczanowskii (Keyserling, 1886)
• E. georgiana = Emertonella emertoni (Bryant, 1933)
• E. nigripes = Emertonella taczanowskii (Keyserling, 1886)
• E. rosascostai = Emertonella taczanowskii (Keyserling, 1886)

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Emertonella Bryant, 1945". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
2. Bryant, E. B. (1945). "Some new or little known southern spiders". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 52 (3–4): 178–192. doi:10.1155/1945/90153.