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Dipoenoides; Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	D. funebris, Virginia
	Dipoenoides taczanowskii, China
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Dipoenoides; Chamberlin, 1925
Type species
	Dipoenoides scriptipes; (Banks, 1908)
Species
	35, see text
Synonyms
	Acanthomysmena Mello-Leitão, 1944; Atkinia Strand, 1929 (removed from S of Dipoena Thorell, 1869); Diaprocorus Simon, 1895; Euryopis Anton Menge, 1868; Mufila Bryant, 1949; Phylarchus Simon, 1889;

Dipoenoides is a genus of cobweb or comb-footed spiders in the family Theridiidae. There are more than 30 described species in Dipoenoides. ^[4]^[1]^[5]

Dipoenoides was formed in the 2026 reorganization of the genus Euryopis, in which the majority of Euryopis species were assigned to the genus Dipoenoides.^[4]^[1]

Description

Species in this genus are found worldwide.^[1]

Species

Dipoenoides californicus, California
female Dipoenoides episinoides
Dipoenoides formosus, California

As of May 2026^[update], these 35 species belong to the genus Dipoenoides:^[1]

Dipoenoides boliviensis (Rodrigues, Marta & Figueiredo, 2021) - Bolivia
Dipoenoides californicus (Banks, 1904) - USA, Mexico
Dipoenoides camis (Levi, 1963) - Brazil
Dipoenoides catarinensis (Rodrigues, Marta & Figueiredo, 2021) - Brazil
Dipoenoides cobreensis (Levi, 1963) - Jamaica
Dipoenoides coki (Levi, 1954) - USA
Dipoenoides cyclosisa (Zhu & Song, 1997) - China
Dipoenoides deplanatus (Schenkel, 1936) - Pakistan, India, China
Dipoenoides emertoni (Bryant, 1933) - USA, Mexico
Dipoenoides emiliae (Lecigne, 2023) - Greece
Dipoenoides episinoides (Walckenaer, 1847) (ant-eating theridiid) - Cape Verde, Mediterranean to Turkey, Georgia, Israel. Introduced to South Africa, Reunion, India, China
Dipoenoides formosus (Banks, 1908) (inland triangular cobweaver) - Canada, USA
Dipoenoides funebris (Hentz, 1850) (eastern triangular cobweaver) - Canada, USA. Introduced to South Africa
Dipoenoides lineatipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) - USA to Colombia
Dipoenoides mallah (Zakerzade, Moradmand & Jäger, 2022) - Iran
Dipoenoides mulaiki (Levi, 1954) - USA, Mexico
Dipoenoides nasutus (Rodrigues, Marta & Figueiredo, 2021) - Brazil
Dipoenoides niger (Yoshida, 2000) - Japan
Dipoenoides pepini (Levi, 1954) - Canada, USA
Dipoenoides pickardi (Levi, 1963) - Jamaica, Panama to Peru
Dipoenoides quinqueguttatus (Thorell, 1875) - Europe, Egypt, Caucasus, Iran, Turkmenistan
Dipoenoides quinquemaculatus (Banks, 1900) - USA
Dipoenoides scriptipes (Banks, 1908) - Canada, USA, Mexico
Dipoenoides serrulatus (Gao & Li, 2014) - China
Dipoenoides sexmaculatus (Hu, 2001) - China
Dipoenoides spinifer (Mello-Leitão, 1944) - Brazil, Argentina
Dipoenoides spiniger (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895) - USA to Colombia
Dipoenoides spiritus (Levi, 1954) - USA
Dipoenoides taczanowskii (Keyserling, 1886) - USA to Argentina. Introduced to Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan (Ryukyu Is.), New Guinea?
Dipoenoides talaveraensis (González, 1991) - Argentina
Dipoenoides tavara (Levi, 1954) - USA
Dipoenoides texanus (Banks, 1908) - USA, Mexico
Dipoenoides trachypus (Gao & Li, 2014) - China
Dipoenoides varis (Levi, 1963) - USA
Dipoenoides weesei (Levi, 1963) - USA

References

1 2 3 4 5 "World Spider Catalog, Dipoenoides Chamberlin, 1925". doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-05-16.
1 2 3 4 Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 15.
↑ Levi, H. W. (1954). "Spiders of the genus Euryopis from North and Central America (Araneae, Theridiidae)". American Museum Novitates (1666): 3.
1 2 Hu, Chang-Hao (2026). "Dipoenoides Chamberlin, 1925 is the valid name for the genus Emertonella Bryant, 1945 (Araneae, Theridiidae, Hadrotarsinae)". The Indochina Entomologist. doi:10.70590/ice.2026.02.22. ISSN 3065-1107.
↑ "BugGuide.net, Euetheola rugiceps species Information". Retrieved 2026-05-16.

External links

Citizen science observations for Dipoenoides at iNaturalist

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[wsc-1] 1 2 3 4 5 "World Spider Catalog, Dipoenoides Chamberlin, 1925". doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-05-16.

[Levi1962-2] 1 2 3 4 Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 15.

[Levi1954-3] Levi, H. W. (1954). "Spiders of the genus Euryopis from North and Central America (Araneae, Theridiidae)". American Museum Novitates (1666): 3.

[Hu2026-4] 1 2 Hu, Chang-Hao (2026). "Dipoenoides Chamberlin, 1925 is the valid name for the genus Emertonella Bryant, 1945 (Araneae, Theridiidae, Hadrotarsinae)". The Indochina Entomologist. doi:10.70590/ice.2026.02.22. ISSN 3065-1107.

[bugguide-5] "BugGuide.net, Euetheola rugiceps species Information". Retrieved 2026-05-16.

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