Rhomphaea

Rhomphaea is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872.^[2]

Species

As of June 2020 it contains thirty-three species, found worldwide:^[1]

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  R. urquharti

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  R. fictilium

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  male R. labiata

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  R. projiciens

• Rhomphaea aculeata Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
• Rhomphaea affinis Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique
• Rhomphaea altissima Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Brazil
• Rhomphaea angulipalpis Thorell, 1877 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Rhomphaea annulipedis Yoshida & Nojima, 2010 – Japan
• Rhomphaea barycephala (Roberts, 1983) – Seychelles (Aldabra)
• Rhomphaea brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1920 – Venezuela, Brazil
• Rhomphaea ceraosus (Zhu & Song, 1991) – China
• Rhomphaea cometes L. Koch, 1872 (type) – New Guinea, Samoa, French Polynesia
• Rhomphaea cona (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
• Rhomphaea fictilium (Hentz, 1850) – Canada to Argentina
• Rhomphaea hyrcana (Logunov & Marusik, 1990) – Georgia, Azerbaijan, China, Japan, Turkey?
• Rhomphaea irrorata Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
• Rhomphaea labiata (Zhu & Song, 1991) – India, China, Korea, Laos, Japan
• Rhomphaea lactifera Simon, 1909 – Vietnam
• Rhomphaea longicaudata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 – Greece, Lebanon
• Rhomphaea metaltissima Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Panama to Brazil
• Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873) – Canary Is., Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Africa, St. Helena
• Rhomphaea oris (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
• Rhomphaea ornatissima Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
• Rhomphaea palmarensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
• Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873) – St. Vincent, Mexico to Brazil
• Rhomphaea pignalitoensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
• Rhomphaea procera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Costa Rica to Argentina
• Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 – USA to Argentina. Introduced to India
• Rhomphaea recurvata (Saaristo, 1978) – Seychelles
• Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873) – Canary Is., Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece
• Rhomphaea sagana (Dönitz & Strand, 1906) – Azerbaijan, Russia (Far East), Japan, Philippines
• Rhomphaea sinica (Zhu & Song, 1991) – China
• Rhomphaea sjostedti Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
• Rhomphaea tanikawai Yoshida, 2001 – China, Japan
• Rhomphaea urquharti (Bryant, 1933) – New Zealand
• Rhomphaea velhaensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Brazil

In synonymy:

• R. argenteola (Simon, 1873) = Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873)
• R. canariensis (Schmidt, 1956) = Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873)
• R. delicatula (Simon, 1883) = Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873)
• R. feioi (Mello-Leitão, 1947) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
• R. honesta (Exline & Levi, 1962) = Rhomphaea brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1920
• R. longa (Kulczyński, 1905) = Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873)
• R. martinae (Exline, 1950) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
• R. petrunkevitchi (Mello-Leitão, 1945) = Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873)
• R. remota (Bryant, 1940) = Rhomphaea fictilium (Hentz, 1850)
• R. simoni (Petrunkevitch, 1911) = Rhomphaea procera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898)
• R. spinicaudata (Keyserling, 1884) = Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873)
• R. spinosa (Badcock, 1932) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

References