Taxon details

Family: Theridiidae / Genus: Spintharus

Spintharus flavidus Hentz, 1850

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2020-02-26
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008011]
  • Distribution: USA; Central and South America: misidentified
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: ; f (lost) (Levi, 1963e)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m of Spintharus lineatus (Levi, 1963e)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m of Spintharus affinis (Levi, 1963e)
  • Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA; f of Spintharus hentzi (Levi, 1963e)
  • Syntype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland; 1f of Spintharus elongatus (Levi, 1963e)
Taxonomic references
Spintharus flavidus Hentz, 1850: 284, pl. 10, f. 8 (Df).
Spintharus flavidus Emerton, 1882: 28, pl. 5, f. 7 (f).
Spintharus flavidus Keyserling, 1884a: 176, pl. 8, f. 107 (f, Dm).
Spintharus elongatus Keyserling, 1884a: 178, pl. 8, f. 108 (Df).
Spintharus flavidus Simon, 1894a: 513, f. 493, 519 (f).
Spintharus lineatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896a: 190, pl. 25, f. 11 (Dm).
Spintharus affinis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896a: 190, pl. 24, f. 2 (Dm).
Spintharus flavidus Emerton, 1902: 127, f. 302 (mf).
Spintharus affinis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 398, pl. 37, f. 28-29 (m, Df).
Spintharus flavidus Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 178, f. 17-18 (f).
Spintharus flavidus Muma, 1943: 63, pl. XII, f. 18-19 (mf).
Spintharus flavidus Archer, 1950: 25, pl. III, f. 1-2 (m).
Spintharus flavidus Levi, 1955b: 79, f. 46, 48-50, 52-53 (mf).
Spintharus hentzi Levi, 1955b: 83, f. 47, 51, 54-55 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055269].
Spintharus flavidus Levi & Levi, 1962: 53, f. 203-206 (m).
Spintharus flavidus Levi, 1963e: 225, f. 1, 2K-U, W, 3-9 (mf, S of Spintharus hentzi).
Spintharus flavidus Coddington, 1990: 17, f. 81 (m).
Spintharus flavidus Agnarsson, 2004: 584, f. 69A-G, 70A-F, 92M (mf).
Spintharus flavidus Durán-Barrón, Rosas & Contreras-Ramos, 2013: 184, f. 7C (m).
Spintharus flavidus Agnarsson et al., 2018: 766, f. 1B-C, 2A-H,J-K, 4A-O (mf).
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

Agnarsson, I., Van Patten, C., Sargeant, L., Chomitz, B., Dziki, A. & Binford, G. J. (2018). A radiation of the ornate Caribbean ‘smiley-faced spiders’, with descriptions of 15 new species (Araneae: Theridiidae, Spintharus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182(4): 758-790. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx056 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Coddington, J. A. (1990). Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 496: 1-52. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Durán-Barrón, C. G., Rosas, M. V. & Contreras-Ramos, A. (2013). Phylogenetic relationships of the comb-footed spider subfamily Spintharinae (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae), with generic diagnoses and a key to the genera. Zootaxa 3666: 171-193. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3666.2.4 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1882). New England spiders of the family Theridiidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 1-86. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1902). The common spiders of the United States. Boston, 225 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.5617 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1850). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 6: 18-35, 271-295. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1955b). The spider genera Episinus and Spintharus from North America, Central America and the West Indies (Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 62(2, 1954): 65-90. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. & Levi, L. R. (1962). The genera of the spider family Theridiidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 127(1): 1-71, pl. 1-14. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1963e). The American spider genera Spintharus and Thwaitesia. Psyche, Cambridge 70(4): 223-234. doi:10.1155/1963/54690 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Muma, M. H. (1943). Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1930a). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 159-356. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1896a). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 161-224. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 313-424. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] 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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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2020-02-26 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Spintharus gracilis Keyserling, 1886
2018-03-29 New taxonomic reference entry Agnarsson et al., 2018 n/a
2018-03-29 Species distribution update Agnarsson et al., 2018 n/a (Old value)