Phycosoma
| Phycosoma | |
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| female P. martinae from Okinawa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Phycosoma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. oecobioides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880 | |
| Species | |
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28, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Phycosoma is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1880.[3]
Species
As of May 2024 it contains twenty-eight species, found worldwide:[1]
- Phycosoma aheneum (Dyal, 1935) – Pakistan
- Phycosoma altum (Keyserling, 1886) – Mexico to Brazil. Introduced to Hawaii
- Phycosoma amamiense (Yoshida, 1985) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan (mainland, Ryukyu Is.)
- Phycosoma corrugum Gao & Li, 2014 – China
- Phycosoma crenatum Gao & Li, 2014 – China
- Phycosoma diaoluo Zhang & Zhang, 2012 – China
- Phycosoma digitula Zhang & Zhang, 2012 – China
- Phycosoma excisum (Simon, 1889) – Madagascar
- Phycosoma flavomarginatum (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Japan
- Phycosoma hainanense (Zhu, 1998) – China, Laos
- Phycosoma hana (Zhu, 1998) – China
- Phycosoma inornatum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1861) – Europe, Turkey, Azerbaijan
- Phycosoma jamesi (Roberts, 1979) – Jamaica, Panama
- Phycosoma japonicum (Yoshida, 1985) – Korea, Japan
- Phycosoma labiale (Zhu, 1998) – China
- Phycosoma ligulaceum Gao & Li, 2014 – China
- Phycosoma lineatipes (Bryant, 1933) – USA to Brazil
- Phycosoma martinae (Roberts, 1983) – Seychelles, India, China, Korea, Japan (Ryukyu Is.), Philippines
- Phycosoma menustya (Roberts, 1983) – Seychelles
- Phycosoma molle (Simon, 1903) – Equatorial Guinea
- Phycosoma mustelinum (Simon, 1889) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan, Indonesia (Krakatau)
- Phycosoma nigromaculatum (Yoshida, 1987) – China, Taiwan, Japan, Ryukyu Is.
- Phycosoma oecobioides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880 (type) – New Zealand (mainland, Chatham Is.)
- Phycosoma sinicum (Zhu, 1992) – China, Vietnam
- Phycosoma spundana (Roberts, 1978) – Seychelles
- Phycosoma stellare (Zhu, 1998) – China
- Phycosoma stictum (Zhu, 1992) – China
- Phycosoma stigmosum Yin, 2012 – China
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Gen. Phycosoma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
- ^ Fitzgerald, B. M.; Sirvid, P. J. (2003). "The genus Trigonobothrys in New Zealand and a redescription of Achaearanea blattea (Theridiidae: Araneae)". Tuhinga. 14: 28.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1880). "On some new and rare spiders from New Zealand, with characters of four new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 47: 681–703. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1879.tb02701.x.
Further reading
- Zhu, M. S. (1998). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing. p. 436.
- Song, D. X.; Zhu, M. S.; Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang. p. 640.
- Yoshida, H. (2002). "A revision of the Japanese genera and species of the subfamily Hadrotarsinae (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Acta Arachnologica. 51: 7–18. doi:10.2476/asjaa.51.7.
- Zhang, F.; Zhang, B. S. (2012). "Spiders of the genus Phycosoma O. P.-Cambridge, 1879 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Hainan Island, China". Zootaxa. 3339: 30–43. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3339.1.2.