Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Family |   ACCEPTED

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).

Gen. Loricatheridion Fang, Liu & Hu, 2026 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06471
type Theridion sudabides Bösenberg & Strand, 1906; gender neuter
Loricatheridion fulvum (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000) | | Taiwan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007207
Chrosiothes fulvus Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000: 126, f. 11-15 (Dmf) Original description
Loricatheridion fulvus Fang, Liu & Hu, 2026: 146 (T from Chrosiothes)
Loricatheridion maxwelli Fang, Liu & Hu, 2026 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:067050
Loricatheridion maxwelli Fang, Liu & Hu, 2026: 146, f. 1A, 2A, 3A-D, 4A-B, 5A-D (Dm) Original description
Loricatheridion sudabides (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) | | China, Korea, Japan, Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007220 TYPE SPECIES
Theridion sudabides Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 145, pl. 10, f. 186 (Df) Original description
Phoroncidia sudabides Yoshida, 1979: 48, f. 4-6 (Dm, f, T from Theridion)
Theridion subabides Song, 1980: 137, f. 73a-d (f)
Chrosiothes sudabides Yoshida, 1982b: 21 (T from Phoroncidia)
Theridion sudabides Hu, 1984: 172, f. 180.1-4 (f)
Chrosiothes sudabides Yaginuma, 1986a: 44, f. 23.5 (mf)
Chrosiothes sudabides Chikuni, 1989b: 32, f. 18 (mf)
Chrosiothes sudabides Feng, 1990: 113, f. 88.1-2 (f)
Chrosiothes sudabides Chen & Gao, 1990: 92, f. 115a-b (mf)
Chrosiothes sudabides Chen & Zhang, 1991: 141, f. 134.1-3 (mf)
Chrosiothes sudabides Zhu, 1998: 258, f. 172A-D (mf)
Chrosiothes sudabides Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 103, f. 48H-I, L (mf)
Chrosiothes sudabides Namkung, 2002: 119, f. 13.37a-b (mf)
Chrosiothes sudabides Namkung, 2003: 121, f. 13.37a-b (mf)
Chrosiothes sudabides Yoshida, 2003a: 67, f. 153-155, 562 (mf)
Chrosiothes sudabides Yoshida, 2009b: 368, f. 113-114 (m)
Chrosiothes sudabides Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 84, f. 46A-D (mf)
Chrosiothes sudabides Yin et al., 2012: 288, f. 104a-d (mf)
Chrosiothes sudabides Kim, 2021: 34, f. 10A-I (mf)
Loricatheridion sudabides Fang, Liu & Hu, 2026: 151, f. 1B, 2B, 6A-F, 7A-B, 8A-B, 9A-F (mf, T from Chrosiothes)
Loricatheridion taiwan (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000) | | Taiwan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007221
Chrosiothes taiwan Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000: 127, f. 16-18 (Dm) Original description
Loricatheridion taiwan Fang, Liu & Hu, 2026: 146 (T from Chrosiothes)

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