Genus of spiders
Rhomphaea is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872.[ 2]
Species
As of June 2020[update] it contains thirty-three species, found worldwide:[ 1]
R. urquharti
R. fictilium
male R. labiata
R. projiciens
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
References
Further reading
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.