Yunohamella lyrica (Walckenaer, 1841)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008497

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Described:

Distribution: China, Korea, Japan, North America

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Taxonomic References
Theridion lyricum Walckenaer, 1841: 288 (D) Original description
Theridion lyra Hentz, 1850: 279, pl. 9, f. 21 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063624]
Theridion kentuckyense Keyserling, 1884a: 78, pl. 4, f. 47 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063623]
Theridion kentuckyense Banks, 1892a: 30, pl. 5, f. 43 (Df)
Theridion kentuckyense Emerton, 1909: 180, pl. 1, f. 6 (mf)
Theridion lyricum Petrunkevitch, 1911: 199 (S of Theridion lyra and T. floridense [rejected by Bryant, 1940: 319, see Theridion flavonotatum])
Theridion lyricum Archer, 1946: 43 (S of Theridion kentuckyense)
Theridion lyra Kaston, 1948: 106, f. 132, 153-154 (mf)
Allotheridion lyricum Archer, 1950: 20 (T from Theridion)
Theridion lyricum Levi, 1957a: 89, f. 322-323, 329-331 (mf)
Theridion lyricum Yoshida, 1987a: 13, f. 1-2 (mf)
Theridion lyricum Yoshida, 1989b: 318, f. 4P-R (mf)
Theridion lyricum Chikuni, 1989b: 44, f. 64 (mf)
Theridion lyricum Kim & Kim, 2001: 155, f. 2A-I (mf)
Takayus lyricus Yoshida, 2001c: 167 (T from Theridion)
Theridion lyricum Namkung, 2002: 96, f. 13.14a-b (mf)
Theridion lyricum Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 223, f. 2494-2496 (mf)
Takayus lyricus Namkung, 2003: 98, f. 13.14a-b (mf)
Takayus lyricus Yoshida, 2003a: 97, f. 239-242, 530 (mf)
Yunohamella lyrica Yoshida, 2007: 69 (T from Takayus)
Yunohamella lyrica Yoshida, 2009b: 372, f. 149-150 (mf)
Yunohamella lyrica Lee & Kim, 2021: 166, f. 4A (m)
Yunohamella lyrica Kim, 2021: 172, f. 75A-D (f)
Yunohamella lyrica Zhong et al., 2025: 79, f. 7A-F, 8A-B, 9A-F (mf, S of Platnickina mneon, revalidated by Suzuki, Lee & Kumada, 2025: 362)
Yunohamella lyrica Iwanaga & Kawai, 2025: 57, f. 1-3 (m)
Yunohamella lyrica Suzuki, Lee & Kumada, 2025: 367, f. 1D-E, 2D-F, 3D-F, 4D-F, I-J (mf)
References

Archer, A. F. (1946). The Theridiidae or comb-footed spiders of Alabama. Museum Paper, Alabama Museum of Natural History 22: 1-67. -- Show included taxa

Archer, A. F. (1950). A study of theridiid and mimetid spiders with descriptions of new genera and species. Museum Paper, Alabama Museum of Natural History 30: 1-40. -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1892a). The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 44: 11-81, pl. 1-5. -- Show included taxa

Chikuni, Y. (1989b). Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan. Kaisei-sha Publishing Co. Tokyo, 310 pp. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1909). Supplement to the New England Spiders. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 14: 171-236. -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1850). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 6(1, 2): 18-35, 271-295, pl. 3-4, 9-10. -- Show included taxa

Iwanaga, S. & Kawai, R. (2025). A list of spiders collected with Malaise traps in Mt. Hiko, Fukuoka, Japan. Kishidaia 126: 56-58. -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1884a). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. I. Hälfte. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 222 pp., pl. 1-10. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Kim, B. W. & Kim, J. P. (2001). Two unrecorded species of the genus Theridion (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Korea. Korean Arachnology 17: 153-159. -- Show included taxa

Kim, S. T. (2021). Spiders V. Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae, Amaurobiidae, Eresidae, Zoropsidae, Anyphaenidae. Invertebrate Fauna of Korea 21(47): 1-230. [[first pdf is reduced in size]] -- Show included taxa

Lee, S. Y. & Kim, S. T. (2021). A new spider of the genus Yunohamella (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Korea. Species Diversity 26(2): 165-169. doi: 10.12782/specdiv.26.165 -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1957a). The spider genera Enoplognatha, Theridion, and Paidisca in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 112: 1-124. -- Show included taxa

Namkung, J. (2002). The spiders of Korea. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co. Seoul, 648 pp. [[2001 in the book, but publ. in 2002 per Platnick]] -- Show included taxa

Namkung, J. (2003). The Spiders of Korea, 2nd. ed. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co. Seoul, 648 pp. -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa

Suzuki, Y., Lee, J. G. & Kumada, K. I. (2025). Taxonomic notes on a comb-footed spider, Yunohamella mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906), stat. rev. (Araneae: Theridiidae) in East Asia. Zootaxa 5691(2): 359-375. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5691.2.10 -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.61095 [[not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837]] -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (1987a). The occurrence of Theridion lyricum Walckenaer, 1841, in Japan. Atypus 89: 13-16. -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (1989b). [Spiders from Mt. Gosho-zan]. Gosho-zan. Scientific Research Association of Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, pp. 314-323. -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (2001c). A revision of the Japanese genera and species of the subfamily Theridiinae (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica 50(2): 157-181. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.50.157 -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (2003a). The spider family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Japan. Arachnological Society of Japan, 224 pp. -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (2007). A new genus of the family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Arachnologica 56(2): 67-69. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.56.67 -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (2009b). Uloboridae, Theridiidae, Ctenidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 142-147, 356-393, 467-468. -- Show included taxa

Zhong, R., Zhong, Y., Zhang, H., Liu, J., Liu, C. Y., Chen, K. & Hu, C. H. (2025). Taxonomic notes on the genus Yunohamella Yoshida, 2007 (Araneae, Theridiidae) from China, with two new species. ZooKeys 1224: 69-85. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1224.138987 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-11-25 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Old value
2025-09-10 New taxonomic reference entry Suzuki, Lee & Kumada, 2025
2025-09-10 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Yunohamella mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
2025-09-10 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Yunohamella mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
2025-09-10 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Yunohamella mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
2025-09-10 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Yunohamella mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
2025-09-10 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Yunohamella mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
2025-09-10 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Yunohamella mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
2025-07-05 New taxonomic reference entry Iwanaga & Kawai, 2025
2025-01-22 Species distribution update Zhong et al., 2025 Old value
2025-01-22 New taxonomic reference entry Zhong et al., 2025
2025-01-22 Species synonymy Zhong et al., 2025 Yunohamella mneon synonymized with Yunohamella lyrica
2022-07-19 New taxonomic reference entry Kim, 2021
2021-06-21 New taxonomic reference entry Lee & Kim, 2021

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