Taxon details

Family: Theridiidae / Genus: Rhomphaea

Rhomphaea cometes L. Koch, 1872

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-03-15
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007015]
  • Distribution: New Guinea, Samoa, French Polynesia
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Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany; 1f (A0000849) (Dupérré, 2023a)
Taxonomic references
Rhomphaea cometes L. Koch, 1872a: 290, pl. 24, f. 3 (Df).
Rhomphaea cometes Simon, 1894a: 502, f. 490, 500.
Rhomphaea cometes Berland, 1929b: 45, f. 12-13 (Dm).
Rhomphaea cometes Chrysanthus, 1975: 44, f. 165-167 (m).
Rhomphaea cometes Agnarsson, 2004: 479 (Tmf from Argyrodes).
Rhomphaea cometes Dierkens & Ramage, 2016: 149, f. 43-44 (f).
Rhomphaea cometes Dupérré, 2023a: 234, f. 74A-D (f).
References

Agnarsson, I. (2004). Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 447-626. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Berland, L. (1929b). Araignées (Araneida). In: Insects of Samoa and other Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda. London 8, 35-78. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chrysanthus, P. (1975). Further notes on the spiders of New Guinea II (Araneae, Tetragnathidae, Theridiidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 140: 1-50. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dierkens, M. & Ramage, T. (2016). Deuxième contribution à la connaissance des araignées de Polynésie française. Bilan des espèces présentes et description de Theridion charlati n. sp. et Glenognatha ledouxi n. sp. Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 85(3-4): 134-172. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dupérré, N. (2023a). New light on some historical type specimens -in relation to the South American spider (Araneae) fauna-. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 50(1): 118-277. doi:10.1080/03014223.2022.2123835 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1872a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 3-7]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 105-368, pl. 8-28. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1894a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 489-760. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-03-15 New taxonomic reference entry Dupérré, 2023a n/a
2017-08-11 New taxonomic reference entry Dierkens & Ramage, 2016 n/a
2017-08-11 Species distribution update Dierkens & Ramage, 2016 n/a (Old value)