Hentziectypus

Hentziectypus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1946.^[2] Originally placed with Theridion, it was moved to Achaearanea in 1955,^[3] and to its own genus in 2008.^[4] These spiders most resemble members of Cryptachaea, but are distinguished by a median apophysis that is broadly attached to the tegulum. Spiders of Parasteatoda have a median apophysis attached to the embolus, while those of Achaearanea have a hooked paracymbium on the pedipalps of males.^[4]

Hentziectypus
H. globosus, adult female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Hentziectypus Archer, 1946[1]
Type species
H. globosus (Hentz, 1850)
Species
12, see text

Species

As of September 2019^[update] it contains twelve species, found in the Americas and in the Caribbean, including Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, and Bermuda:^[1]

• Hentziectypus annus (Levi, 1959) – Jamaica, Bermuda
• Hentziectypus apex (Levi, 1959) – Panama
• Hentziectypus conjunctus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) – USA, Canada
• Hentziectypus florendidus (Levi, 1959) – USA to Venezuela
• Hentziectypus florens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – USA to Panama, Cuba
• Hentziectypus globosus (Hentz, 1850) (type) – North America
• Hentziectypus hermosillo (Levi, 1959) – Mexico
• Hentziectypus rafaeli (Buckup & Marques, 1991) – Bolivia, Brazil
• Hentziectypus schullei (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) – USA, Mexico
• Hentziectypus serax (Levi, 1959) – Mexico
• Hentziectypus tayrona Buckup, Marques & Rodrigues, 2012 – Colombia
• Hentziectypus turquino (Levi, 1959) – Cuba

In synonymy:

• H. credulus (Gertsch & Davis, 1936) = Hentziectypus schullei (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936)
• H. mendax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) = Hentziectypus florens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896)

See also

• List of Theridiidae species