Neospintharus
| Neospintharus | |
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| N. trigonum, male | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Neospintharus Exline, 1950 |
| Type species | |
| N. parvus Exline, 1950 | |
| Species | |
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13, see text | |
Neospintharus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by H. Exline in 1950. It was synonymized with Argyrodes in 1962, but revalidated in 2004.
Species
As of September 2019[update] it contains thirteen species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Central America, Asia, Mexico, Turkey, the United States, and Canada:
- Neospintharus baboquivari (Exline & Levi, 1962) – USA, Mexico
- Neospintharus baekamensis Seo, 2010 – Korea
- Neospintharus bicornis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – Brazil
- Neospintharus concisus (Exline & Levi, 1962) – Mexico
- Neospintharus fur (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Japan
- Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) – USA to El Salvador, Caribbean
- Neospintharus nipponicus (Kumada, 1990) – China, Korea, Japan
- Neospintharus obscurus (Keyserling, 1884) – Peru
- Neospintharus parvus Exline, 1950 (type) – Panama to Ecuador
- Neospintharus rioensis (Exline & Levi, 1962) – Brazil, Argentina
- Neospintharus syriacus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Turkey, Lebanon, Israel
- Neospintharus triangularis (Taczanowski, 1873) – Panama, French Guiana
- Neospintharus trigonum (Hentz, 1850) – USA, Canada
In synonymy:
- N. bifissus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) = Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)
- N. frontatus (Banks, 1908) = Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)
- N. gansuensis (Zhu, 1998) = Neospintharus fur (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
- N. montanus (Keyserling, 1884) = Neospintharus obscurus (Keyserling, 1884)