Coscinida

Coscinida
Coscinida japonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Coscinida Simon, 1895
Type species
C. tibialis Simon, 1895
Species
17, see text
Synonyms
Loxonychia Tullgren, 1910 Theridiella Tullgren, 1910

Coscinida is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.

Species

As of May 2020^[update] it contains seventeen species, found in Asia, Europe, and Africa:

• Coscinida asiatica Zhu & Zhang, 1992 – China
• Coscinida conica Yang, Irfan & Peng, 2019 – China
• Coscinida coreana Paik, 1995 – Korea
• Coscinida decemguttata Miller, 1970 – Congo
• Coscinida gentilis Simon, 1895 – Sri Lanka
• Coscinida hunanensis Yin, Peng & Bao, 2006 – China
• Coscinida japonica Yoshida, 1994 – Japan
• Coscinida leviorum Locket, 1968 – Angola
• Coscinida lugubris (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
• Coscinida novemnotata Simon, 1895 – Sri Lanka
• Coscinida proboscidea Simon, 1899 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Coscinida propinqua Miller, 1970 – Angola
• Coscinida shimenensis Yin, Peng & Bao, 2006 – China
• Coscinida tibialis Simon, 1895 (type) – Africa, southern Europe, Turkey, Israel, Yemen. Introduced to Thailand
• Coscinida triangulifera Simon, 1904 – Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Java)
• Coscinida ulleungensis Paik, 1995 – Korea
• Coscinida yei Yin & Bao, 2012 – China

Formerly included:

• C. subtilis Simon, 1895 (Transferred to Stemmops)

References

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