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N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Hadrotarsidae Thorell, 1881: 190 (sub Hadrotarsoidae, removed from the synonymy of Oonopidae by Roewer, 1963a: 122, rejecting Roewer, 1942a: 287) by Forster, Platnick & Coddington, 1990: 111 (per Wunderlich, 1978a: 25 and Wunderlich, 1986: 95, rejecting Baert, 1984a: 615 and Davies, 1985: 67), who recognized an expanded Hadrotarsinae as well as a separate subfamily Spintharinae Simon, 1894a: 512 (sub Spinthareae); the subfamily Theonoeinae Simon, 1894a: 586 (sub Theonoeae) (synonym Pholcommatinae Simon, 1894a: 589, sub Pholcommateae), which include Theonoe Simon, 1881, Carniella Thaler & Steinberger, 1988, Robertus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879 and Pholcomma Thorell, 1869, is circumscribed by Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 51; Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 also mention the subfamilies Argyrodinae Simon, 1881a: 14 (sub Argyrodini) and Latrodectinae Petrunkevitch, 1928: 117 (junior synyonym of Dipoeninae Simon, 1894a: 561, sub Dipoeneae).
In synonymy:
Mesopneustes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 = Theridula Emerton, 1882 (Simon, 1898a: 207)
Transferred to other genera:
Theridula albipes Saito, 1935 -- see Chikunia
Theridula angula Tikader, 1970 -- see Chrysso
Theridula caudata Saito, 1933 -- see Chrysso
Theridula huberti Benoit, 1977 -- see Helenidion
Theridula ovsjannikovi Charitonov, 1950 -- see Chrysso
Theridula polita Mello-Leitão, 1947 -- see Dipoena
Theridula swatiae Biswas, Saha & Raychaydhuri, 1997 -- see Physcoa
In synonymy:
Theridula cordiformis (Butler, 1883) = Theridula opulenta (Walckenaer, 1841) (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 393)
Theridula nigrovittata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) = Theridula gonygaster (Simon, 1873) (Levi, 1954c: 340)
Theridula nivipicta (Butler, 1883) = Theridula gonygaster (Simon, 1873) (Levi, 1954c: 340)
Theridula opulenta albomaculata Franganillo, 1936 = Theridula gonygaster (Simon, 1873) (Levi, 1954c: 340)
Theridula quadripunctata Keyserling, 1886 = Theridula opulenta (Walckenaer, 1841) (Petrunkevitch, 1911: 211)
Theridula quinqueguttata Keyserling, 1886 = Theridula gonygaster (Simon, 1873) (Levi, 1954c: 340)
Theridula regia Gertsch & Archer, 1942 = Theridula gonygaster (Simon, 1873) (Levi, 1954c: 340)
Theridula sphaerula (Hentz, 1850) = Theridula opulenta (Walckenaer, 1841) (Simon, 1894a: 545)
Theridula triangularis Keyserling, 1886 = Theridula gonygaster (Simon, 1873) (Levi, 1954c: 340)
Theridula tricornis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 = Theridula gonygaster (Simon, 1873) (Levi, 1954c: 340)
Theridula ventillans (Keyserling, 1884, T from Theridion) = Theridula opulenta (Walckenaer, 1841) (Banks, 1893a: 125, sub Therdiula sphaerula)
Homonym replaced:
Theridula nigra (Keyserling, 1886) -- see Theridula nigerrima Petrunkevitch, 1911 Petrunkevitch, 1911
Nomen dubium:
Theridula theriella Strand, 1907d: 729, Strand, 1907o: 31 (f, Madagascar) -- Nentwig et al., 2020: 27
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