Spheropistha

Spheropistha is a genus of Asian comb-footed spiders that was first described by T. Yaginuma in 1957.^[2]

Spheropistha
Female Spheropistha melanosoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Spheropistha Yaginuma, 1957[1]
Type species
S. melanosoma Yaginuma, 1957
Species
7, see text

Species

As of June 2020^[update] it contains seven species, found in Taiwan, Japan, and China:^[1]

• Spheropistha huangsangensis (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) – China
• Spheropistha melanosoma Yaginuma, 1957 (type) – Japan, Korea?
• Spheropistha miyashitai (Tanikawa, 1998) – Japan
• Spheropistha nigroris (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000) – Taiwan
• Spheropistha orbita (Zhu, 1998) – China
• Spheropistha rhomboides (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) – China
• Spheropistha xinhua Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 – China

See also

• List of Theridiidae species