Paratheuma

Paratheuma is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by E. B. Bryant in 1940.[5] Originally placed with the ground spiders, it was transferred to the intertidal spiders in 1975,[6] and to the Dictynidae in 2016.[7]

Paratheuma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Dictynidae
Genus: Paratheuma
Bryant, 1940[1]
Type species
P. insulana
(Banks, 1902)
Species

11, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Corteza Roth & Brown, 1975[2]
  • Litisedes Oi, 1960[3]
  • Swainsia Marples, 1964[4]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains eleven species:[1]

  • Paratheuma andromeda Beatty & Berry, 1989 – Cook Is.
  • Paratheuma armata (Marples, 1964) – Caroline Is. to Samoa
  • Paratheuma australis Beatty & Berry, 1989 – Australia (Queensland), Fiji
  • Paratheuma awasensis Shimojana, 2013 – Japan (Okinawa)
  • Paratheuma enigmatica Zamani, Marusik & Berry, 2016 – Iran
  • Paratheuma insulana (Banks, 1902) (type) – USA, Caribbean. Introduced to Japan
  • Paratheuma interaesta (Roth & Brown, 1975) – Mexico
  • Paratheuma makai Berry & Beatty, 1989 – Hawaii
  • Paratheuma ramseyae Beatty & Berry, 1989 – Cook Is.
  • Paratheuma rangiroa Beatty & Berry, 1989 – Polynesia
  • Paratheuma shirahamaensis (Oi, 1960) – Korea, Japan

References
  1. "Gen. Paratheuma Bryant, 1940". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  2. Platnick, N. I. (1977). "Notes on the spider genus Paratheuma Bryant (Arachnida, Araneae)". Journal of Arachnology. 3: 199.
  3. Yaginuma, T. (1990). "A spider genus Litisedes Oi is synonymized with Paratheuma Bryant". Nankiseibutu. 32: 2.
  4. Beatty, J. A.; Berry, J. W. (1988). "The spider genus Paratheuma (Araneae, Desidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 16: 48.
  5. Bryant, E. B. (1940). "Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 86: 247–532.
  6. Roth, V. D.; Brown, W. L. (1975). "A new genus of Mexican intertidal zone spider (Desidae) with biological and behavioral notes". American Museum Novitates. 2568: 2.
  7. Zamani, A.; Marusik, Y. M.; Berry, J. W. (2016). "A new species of Paratheuma (Araneae: Dictynidae) from Southwestern Asia and transfer of the genus". Zoology in the Middle East. 62 (2): 178. doi:10.1080/09397140.2016.1173927.


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