Taxon details

Family: Theridiidae / Genus: Asiopisinus

Asiopisinus ornithorrhynchus (F. J. Liu, Agnarsson, J. Liu & Zhu, 2022)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-07-12
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056078]
  • Distribution: China
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Centre for Behavioral Ecology and Evolution (CBEE), College of Life Sciences [= Museum of Hubei University (MHU)], Hubei University, Wuhan, China; m (Liu et al., 2022f)
  • Paratype: Centre for Behavioral Ecology and Evolution (CBEE), College of Life Sciences [= Museum of Hubei University (MHU)], Hubei University, Wuhan, China; 1m 4f (Liu et al., 2022f)
Taxonomic references
Episinus ornithorrhynchus Liu et al., 2022f: 35, f. 1A-D, 2A-E, 3A-B (Dmf).
Asiopisinus ornithorhynchus Hu et al., 2025a: 483, f. 2D, 3C, 4F, 12A-F, 13A-B, 14G-H, 15G-H, 16G-H (mf, lapsus, T from Episinus).
References

Hu, C. H., Wei, M., Liu, J. & Xu, X. (2025a). Asiopisinus gen. nov., a new genus of the family Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833 (Araneae, Theridiidae) from eastern Asia. Zootaxa 5660(4): 475-504. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Liu, F. J., Agnarsson, I., Liu, J. & Zhu, Y. (2022f). Description and phylogenetic analysis of two new Episinus (Aranea [sic], Theridiidae) species from China. ZooKeys 1125: 33-46. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1125.90212 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2025-07-12 New taxonomic reference entry Hu et al., 2025a n/a
2025-07-12 Species transferred to new genus Hu et al., 2025a Species transferred from Episinus to Asiopisinus
2022-10-19 New taxonomic reference entry Liu et al., 2022f n/a
2022-10-19 New species inserted Liu et al., 2022f n/a