Orsinome

Orsinome
Orsinome vethi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Tetragnathidae
Genus:	Orsinome Thorell, 1890
Type species
O. vethi (Hasselt, 1882)
Species
13, see text

Orsinome is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890. It is included in the Nanometa clade, defined by nine morphological synapomorphies, along with Eryciniolia and Nanometa.

Species

As of March 2021^[update] it contains thirteen species, found in Oceania, Asia, and on Madagascar:

• Orsinome armata Pocock, 1901 – India
• Orsinome cavernicola (Thorell, 1878) – Indonesia (Ambon)
• Orsinome daiqin Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
• Orsinome diporusa Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
• Orsinome elberti Strand, 1911 – Timor
• Orsinome jiarui Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
• Orsinome lorentzi Kulczyński, 1911 – New Guinea
• Orsinome megaloverpa Hormiga & Kallal, 2018 – Philippines
• Orsinome monulfi Chrysanthus, 1971 – New Guinea
• Orsinome phrygiana Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
• Orsinome pilatrix (Thorell, 1878) – Indonesia (Ambon)
• Orsinome trappensis Schenkel, 1953 – China
• Orsinome vethi (Hasselt, 1882) (type) – India, China, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Flores)

In synonymy:

• O. listeri Gravely, 1921 = Orsinome vethi (Hasselt, 1882)
• O. nepula (Tikader, 1970) = Orsinome vethi (Hasselt, 1882)

See also

• Eryciniolia
• Nanometa

References