Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0099] Detail
Gen. Spheropistha Yaginuma, 1957 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03646] Detail
type Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1957; gender feminine
N.B.: transferred from the Theridiosomatidae to the Theridiidae by Brignoli, 1981a: 9, contra Levi & Levi, 1962: 28; removed from the synonymy of Argyrodes Simon, 1864 by Agnarsson, 2004: 480, after Yoshida, 2001d: 183-184, contra Tanikawa, 1998a: 22.
Transferred to other genera:
Spheropistha xinhua Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 -- see Argyrodes
Spheropistha huangsangensis (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) | f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039790]
Argyrodes huangsangensis Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004b: 1, f. 1-4 (Df).
Spheropistha huangsangensis Yin et al., 2012: 378, f. 160a-d (Tf from Argyrodes).
Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1957 * | m f | Korea, Japan     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007089]
Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1957b: 15, f. 2A-E (Df).
Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1960: 39, f. 39.6-8 (f).
Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1971: 39, f. 39.6-8 (f).
Spheropistha melanosoma Brignoli, 1981a: 16, f. 11-12 (f, Dm).
Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1986a: 53, f. 28.8 (mf).
Spheropistha melanosoma Chikuni, 1989b: 35, f. 29 (mf).
Argyrodes melanosoma Tanikawa, 1998a: 22, f. 3-5, 7, 8, 11, 13 (mf).
Spheropistha melanosoma Yoshida, 2003a: 141, f. 381-383 (mf).
Spheropistha melanosoma Agnarsson, 2004: 480 (Tmf from Argyrodes, after Yoshida, 2001d).
Spheropistha melanosoma Kim & Shin, 2009: 65, f. 1-3 (m) ["uncertain" after Yoo et al., 2015: 5].
Spheropistha melanosoma Yoshida, 2009b: 384, f. 270-272 (mf).
Spheropistha melanosoma Hidaka, 2022c: 172, f. 5-6 (m).
Spheropistha melanosoma Lee et al., 2023a: 16, f. 1A-H (m).
Spheropistha miyashitai (Tanikawa, 1998) | m f | Japan     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007099]
Argyrodes miyashitai Tanikawa, 1998a: 23, f. 1-2, 6, 8, 10, 12 (Dmf).
Spheropistha miyashitai Yoshida, 2001d: 184.
Spheropistha miyashitai Yoshida, 2003a: 142, f. 384-386 (mf).
Spheropistha miyashitai Agnarsson, 2004: 480 (Tmf from Argyrodes, after Yoshida, 2001d).
Spheropistha miyashitai Yoshida, 2009b: 384, f. 273-275 (mf).
Spheropistha miyashitai Sato, 2012: 66, unnumbered f. (m).
Spheropistha miyashitai Vanuytven, 2021: 25, 259, f. A.11c-d, B.279a-b (m).
Spheropistha nigroris (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000) | m f | Taiwan     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007107]
Argyrodes nigroris Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000: 125, f. 5-10 (Dmf).
Spheropistha nigroris Yoshida, 2001d: 184.
Spheropistha nigroris Agnarsson, 2004: 480 (Tmf from Argyrodes, after Yoshida, 2001d).
Spheropistha orbita (Zhu, 1998) | m f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007110]
Argyrodes orbitus Zhu, 1998: 221, f. 145A-D (Dmf).
Argyrodes orbitus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 100, f. 47E-F, N (mf).
Spheropistha orbita Yoshida, 2001d: 184.
Spheropistha orbita Agnarsson, 2004: 480 (Tmf from Argyrodes, after Yoshida, 2001d).
Argyrodes orbitus Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004b: 3, f. 9-15 (mf).
Spheropistha orbita Yin et al., 2012: 379, f. 161a-g (mf).
Spheropistha pingshan Lin & Li, 2022 | m f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054898]
Spheropistha pingshan Lin & Li, in Lin et al., 2022c: 261, f. 56A-C, 57A-E, 58 (Dmf).
Spheropistha rhomboides (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) | f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039791]
Argyrodes rhomboides Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004b: 2, f. 5-8 (Df).
Spheropistha rhomboides Yin et al., 2012: 381, f. 162a-d (Tf from Argyrodes).
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