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 August 2024^[update] it contains twelve 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 draneyi Berry, 2024 – New Zealand
• 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