Dipoenoides

Dipoenoides
Temporal range:
E. 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[1]

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

As of May 2026, 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. ^ a b c d e "World Spider Catalog, Dipoenoides Chamberlin, 1925". doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-05-16.
  2. ^ a b c d Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 15.
  3. ^ Levi, H. W. (1954). "Spiders of the genus Euryopis from North and Central America (Araneae, Theridiidae)". American Museum Novitates (1666): 3.
  4. ^ a b 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.
  5. ^ "BugGuide.net, Euetheola rugiceps species Information". Retrieved 2026-05-16.