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Spintharus

Durán-Barrón, César G.;Rosas, María V.;Contreras-Ramos, Atilano

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Spintharus

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The spider genus Spintharus occurs from the northeastern United States to Brazil. Nicholas Marcellus Hentz circumscribed the genus in 1850, initially as a monospecific genus containing his newly described species S. flavidus.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyTheridiidae
Observations530
Observations recorded774

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
28
Family
Theridiidae
Collections
MCZ, MNRJ, WCU, MPEG, USNM, FMNH
Recorded in
Nicaragua, Brasil, United States

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Theridiidae
Image
Spintharus.flavidus.female.lateral.svg
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Commons category
Spintharus
taxon name
Spintharus
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Spintharus
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Spintharus
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Encyclopedic overview

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The spider genus Spintharus occurs from the northeastern United States to Brazil. Nicholas Marcellus Hentz circumscribed the genus in 1850, initially as a monospecific genus containing his newly described species S. flavidus.

It is very similar to the genus Thwaitesia, and both are similar to Episinus. Unlike Argyrodes, they have two setae in place of a colulus.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spintharus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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