Dipoenoides

Dipoenoides; Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	D. funebris, Virginia
	Dipoenoides taczanowskii, China
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Dipoenoides; Chamberlin, 1925
Type species
	Dipoenoides scriptipes; (Banks, 1908)
Species
	35, see text
Synonyms
	Acanthomysmena Mello-Leitão, 1944; Atkinia Strand, 1929 (removed from S of Dipoena Thorell, 1869); Diaprocorus Simon, 1895; Emertonella Bryant, 1945; Euryopis Menge, 1868; Mufila Bryant, 1949; Phylarchus Simon, 1889;

Dipoenoides is a genus of cobweb or comb-footed spiders in the family Theridiidae. There are more than 30 described species in Dipoenoides.

Dipoenoides was formed in the 2026 reorganization of the genus Euryopis, in which the majority of Euryopis species were assigned to the genus Dipoenoides.

Description

Species in this genus are found worldwide.

Species

Dipoenoides californicus, California
female Dipoenoides episinoides
Dipoenoides formosus, California

As of October 2026^[update], these 36 species belong to the genus Dipoenoides:

Dipoenoides boliviensis (Rodrigues, Marta & Figueiredo, 2021) - Bolivia
Dipoenoides californicus (Banks, 1904) - USA, Mexico
Dipoenoides camis (Levi, 1963) - Brazil
Dipoenoides catarinensis (Rodrigues, Marta & Figueiredo, 2021) - Brazil
Dipoenoides cobreensis (Levi, 1963) - Jamaica
Dipoenoides coki (Levi, 1954) - USA
Dipoenoides cyclosisa (Zhu & Song, 1997) - China
Dipoenoides deplanatus (Schenkel, 1936) - Pakistan, India, China
Dipoenoides emertoni (Bryant, 1933) - USA, Mexico
Dipoenoides emiliae (Lecigne, 2023) - Greece
Dipoenoides episinoides (Walckenaer, 1847) (ant-eating theridiid) - Cape Verde, Mediterranean to Turkey, Georgia, Israel. Introduced to South Africa, Reunion, India, China
Dipoenoides formosus (Banks, 1908) (inland triangular cobweaver) - Canada, USA
Dipoenoides funebris (Hentz, 1850) (eastern triangular cobweaver) - Canada, USA. Introduced to South Africa
Dipoenoides lineatipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) - USA to Colombia
Dipoenoides mallah (Zakerzade, Moradmand & Jäger, 2022) - Iran
Dipoenoides mulaiki (Levi, 1954) - USA, Mexico
Dipoenoides nasutus (Rodrigues, Marta & Figueiredo, 2021) - Brazil
Dipoenoides niger (Yoshida, 2000) - Japan
Dipoenoides pepini (Levi, 1954) - Canada, USA
Dipoenoides pickardi (Levi, 1963) - Jamaica, Panama to Peru
Dipoenoides quinqueguttatus (Thorell, 1875) - Europe, Egypt, Caucasus, Iran, Turkmenistan
Dipoenoides quinquemaculatus (Banks, 1900) - USA
Dipoenoides schwendingeri (Zamani & Marusik, 2021) - Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia
Dipoenoides scriptipes (Banks, 1908) - Canada, USA, Mexico
Dipoenoides serrulatus (Gao & Li, 2014) - China
Dipoenoides sexmaculatus (Hu, 2001) - China
Dipoenoides spinifer (Mello-Leitão, 1944) - Brazil, Argentina
Dipoenoides spiniger (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895) - USA to Colombia
Dipoenoides spiritus (Levi, 1954) - USA
Dipoenoides taczanowskii (Keyserling, 1886) - USA to Argentina. Introduced to Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan (Ryukyu Is.), New Guinea?
Dipoenoides talaveraensis (González, 1991) - Argentina
Dipoenoides tavara (Levi, 1954) - USA
Dipoenoides texanus (Banks, 1908) - USA, Mexico
Dipoenoides trachypus (Gao & Li, 2014) - China
Dipoenoides varis (Levi, 1963) - USA
Dipoenoides weesei (Levi, 1963) - USA

References

1 2 3 4 5 "World Spider Catalog, Dipoenoides Chamberlin, 1925". doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-05-16.
1 2 3 4 Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 15.
↑ Levi, H. W. (1954). "Spiders of the genus Euryopis from North and Central America (Araneae, Theridiidae)". American Museum Novitates (1666): 3.
1 2 Hu, Chang-Hao (2026). "Dipoenoides Chamberlin, 1925 is the valid name for the genus Emertonella Bryant, 1945 (Araneae, Theridiidae, Hadrotarsinae)". The Indochina Entomologist. doi:10.70590/ice.2026.02.22. ISSN 3065-1107.
↑ "BugGuide.net, Euetheola rugiceps species Information". Retrieved 2026-05-16.

External links

Citizen science observations for Dipoenoides at iNaturalist

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[wsc-1] 1 2 3 4 5 "World Spider Catalog, Dipoenoides Chamberlin, 1925". doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-05-16.

[Levi1962-2] 1 2 3 4 Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 15.

[Levi1954-3] Levi, H. W. (1954). "Spiders of the genus Euryopis from North and Central America (Araneae, Theridiidae)". American Museum Novitates (1666): 3.

[Hu2026-4] 1 2 Hu, Chang-Hao (2026). "Dipoenoides Chamberlin, 1925 is the valid name for the genus Emertonella Bryant, 1945 (Araneae, Theridiidae, Hadrotarsinae)". The Indochina Entomologist. doi:10.70590/ice.2026.02.22. ISSN 3065-1107.

[bugguide-5] "BugGuide.net, Euetheola rugiceps species Information". Retrieved 2026-05-16.

Dipoenoides Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

D. funebris, Virginia

Dipoenoides taczanowskii, China
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Dipoenoides Chamberlin, 1925
Type species
Dipoenoides scriptipes (Banks, 1908)
Species
35, see text
Synonyms
Acanthomysmena Mello-Leitão, 1944 Atkinia Strand, 1929 (removed from S of Dipoena Thorell, 1869) Diaprocorus Simon, 1895 Emertonella Bryant, 1945 Euryopis Menge, 1868 Mufila Bryant, 1949 Phylarchus Simon, 1889