Phoroncidia

Phoroncidia is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. O. Westwood in 1835.^[4]

Species

As of May 2020 it contains seventy-nine species and one subspecies, found worldwide:^[1]

• P. aciculata Thorell, 1877 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• P. aculeata Westwood, 1835 (type) – India, China
• P. alishanensis Chen, 1990 – Taiwan
• P. altiventris Yoshida, 1985 – Japan
• P. alveolata (Simon, 1903) – Equatorial Guinea
• P. ambatolahy Kariko, 2014 – Madagascar
• P. americana (Emerton, 1882) – USA, Canada, Cuba, Jamaica
• P. argoides (Doleschall, 1857) – Indonesia (Ambon)
• P. aurata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 – Madagascar
• P. bifrons (Simon, 1895) – Philippines
• P. biocellata (Simon, 1893) – Brazil
• P. bukolana Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• P. capensis (Simon, 1895) – South Africa
• P. concave Yin & Xu, 2012 – China
• P. coracina (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• P. cribrata (Simon, 1893) – Paraguay
• P. crustula Zhu, 1998 – China
• P. cygnea (Hickman, 1951) – Australia (Tasmania)
• P. eburnea (Simon, 1895) – South Africa
• P. ellenbergeri Berland, 1913 – Gabon
• P. escalerai (Simon, 1903) – Equatorial Guinea
• P. flavolimbata (Simon, 1893) – Ecuador
• P. floripara Gao & Li, 2014 – China
• P. fumosa (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
• P. gayi (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
• P. gira Levi, 1964 – Venezuela
• P. hankiewiczi (Kulczyński, 1911) – Portugal, Spain, France
• P. hexacantha Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• P. jacobsoni (Reimoser, 1925) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• P. kibonotensis (Tullgren, 1910) – East Africa
  • Phoroncidia k. concolor (Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya
• P. levii Chrysanthus, 1963 – New Guinea
• P. longiceps (Keyserling, 1886) – Brazil
• P. lygeana (Walckenaer, 1841) – Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Borneo)
• P. maindroni (Simon, 1905) – India
• P. minuta (Spassky, 1932) – Georgia, Azerbaijan
• P. moyobamba Levi, 1964 – Peru, Brazil
• P. musiva (Simon, 1880) – New Caledonia
• P. nasuta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Japan
• P. nicoleti (Roewer, 1942) – Chile
• P. nicoleti Levi, 1964 – Chile
• P. oahuensis (Simon, 1900) – Hawaii
• P. paradoxa (Lucas, 1846) – Southern Europe, North Africa, Turkey
• P. pennata (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
• P. personata (L. Koch, 1872) – Samoa, Fiji, Australia (Lord Howe Is.)
• P. pilula (Karsch, 1879) – Georgia, Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
• P. pilula (Simon, 1895) – Tanzania (Zanzibar)
• P. piratini Rodrigues & Marques, 2010 – Brazil
• P. pukeiwa (Marples, 1955) – New Zealand
• P. puketoru (Marples, 1955) – New Zealand
• P. puyehue Levi, 1967 – Chile
• P. quadrata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – New Zealand
• P. ravot Levi, 1964 – Venezuela
• P. reimoseri Levi, 1964 – Brazil
• P. roseleviorum Kariko, 2014 – Madagascar
• P. rotunda (Keyserling, 1890) – Australia (Queensland, Lord Howe Is.), Samoa
• P. rubens Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon
• P. rubroargentea Berland, 1913 – Madagascar
• P. rubromaculata (Keyserling, 1886) – Brazil
• P. ryukyuensis Yoshida, 1979 – Taiwan, Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
• P. saboya Levi, 1964 – Colombia
• P. scutellata (Taczanowski, 1879) – Peru
• P. scutula (Nicolet, 1849) – Bolivia, Chile
• P. septemaculeata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873 – India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia
• P. sextuberculata (Keyserling, 1890) – Australia (Queensland)
• P. sjostedti Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
• P. spissa (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
• P. splendida Thorell, 1899 – West Africa
• P. studo Levi, 1964 – Peru, Brazil
• P. testudo (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – India, Sri Lanka
• P. thwaitesi O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 – Sri Lanka
• P. tina Levi, 1964 – Brazil
• P. tricuspidata (Blackwall, 1863) – Brazil
• P. trituberculata (Hickman, 1951) – Australia (Tasmania)
• P. triunfo Levi, 1964 – Mexico to Costa Rica
• P. truncatula (Strand, 1909) – South Africa
• P. umbrosa (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
• P. variabilis (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
• P. vatoharanana Kariko, 2014 – Madagascar
• P. wrightae Kariko, 2014 – Madagascar

Formerly included:

• P. flavomaculata (Keyserling, 1891) (Transferred to Dipoena)
• P. sudabides (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (Transferred to Chrosiothes)

Nomen dubium

• P. quadrispinella Strand, 1907

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

References