Paratheuma
| Paratheuma | |
|---|---|
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| juvenile male P. draneyi in New Zealand | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Argyronetidae |
| Genus: | Paratheuma Bryant, 1940[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. insulana (Banks, 1902) | |
| Species | |
|
12, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Paratheuma is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Argyronetidae. It was first described by Elizabeth 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]
Species
[edit]As of October 2025[update], this genus includes twelve species:[1]
- Paratheuma andromeda Beatty & Berry, 1989 – Cook Islands
- Paratheuma armata (Marples, 1964) – Caroline Islands 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) – United States, Caribbean. Introduced to China (Hainan), Japan (type species)
- Paratheuma interaesta (Roth & Brown, 1975) – Mexico
- Paratheuma makai Berry & Beatty, 1989 – Hawaii
- Paratheuma ramseyae Beatty & Berry, 1989 – Cook Islands
- Paratheuma rangiroa Beatty & Berry, 1989 – Polynesia
- Paratheuma shirahamaensis (Oi, 1960) – China, Korea, Japan
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Gen. Paratheuma Bryant, 1940". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
- ↑ Platnick, N. I. (1977). "Notes on the spider genus Paratheuma Bryant (Arachnida, Araneae)". Journal of Arachnology. 3: 199.
- ↑ Yaginuma, T. (1990). "A spider genus Litisedes Oi is synonymized with Paratheuma Bryant". Nankiseibutu. 32: 2.
- ↑ Beatty, J. A.; Berry, J. W. (1988). "The spider genus Paratheuma (Araneae, Desidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 16: 48.
- ↑ Bryant, E. B. (1940). "Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 86: 247–532.
- ↑ Roth, V. D.; Brown, W. L. (1975). "A new genus of Mexican intertidal zone spider (Desidae) with biological and behavioral notes". American Museum Novitates (2568): 2.
- ↑ Zamani, A.; Marusik, Y. M.; Berry, J. W. (2016). "A new species of Paratheuma (Araneae: Dictynidae) from Southwestern Asia and transfer of the genus". Zoology in the Middle East. 62 (2): 178. doi:10.1080/09397140.2016.1173927. S2CID 87164738.
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