Philoponella

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Philoponella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Uloboridae
Genus: Philoponella
Mello-Leitão, 1917
Species

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Philoponella is a genus of uloborid spiders. Like all Uloboridae, these species have no venom.

The species P. vicinus uses its silk to crush its victims to death.

[edit] Distribution

Philoponella species occur pantropical in the Americas, Africa, southeastern Asia and Australia, with almost half of them from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

[edit] Species

  • Philoponella angolensis (Lessert, 1933) (Ivory Coast, Angola)
  • Philoponella arizonica (Gertsch, 1936) (USA, Mexico)
  • Philoponella bella Opell, 1979 (Colombia)
  • Philoponella collina (Keyserling, 1883) (Peru)
  • Philoponella congregabilis (Rainbow, 1916) (New South Wales)
  • Philoponella cymbiformis Xian et al., 1997 (China)
  • Philoponella divisa Opell, 1979 (Colombia)
  • Philoponella fasciata (Mello-Leitão, 1917) (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina)
  • Philoponella gibberosa (Kulczyn'ski, 1908) (Java)
  • Philoponella herediae Opell, 1987 (Costa Rica)
  • Philoponella hilaris (Simon, 1906) (India)
  • Philoponella lingulata Dong, Zhu & Yoshida, 2005 (China)
  • Philoponella lunaris (C. L. Koch, 1839) (Brazil)
  • Philoponella mollis (Thorell, 1895) (Myanmar)
  • Philoponella nasuta (Thorell, 1895) (China, Myanmar)
  • Philoponella nigromaculata Yoshida, 1992 (Taiwan)
  • Philoponella operosa (Simon, 1896) (South Africa)
  • Philoponella oweni (Chamberlin, 1924) (USA, Mexico)
  • Philoponella pantherina (Keyserling, 1890) (New South Wales)
  • Philoponella para Opell, 1979 (Paraguay, Argentina)
  • Philoponella pisiformis Dong, Zhu & Yoshida, 2005 (China)
  • Philoponella pomelita Grismado, 2004 (Argentina)
  • Philoponella prominens (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (China, Korea, Japan)
  • Philoponella quadrituberculata (Thorell, 1892) (Java, Moluccas)
  • Philoponella raffrayi (Simon, 1891) (Java, Moluccas)
  • Philoponella ramirezi Grismado, 2004 (Brazil)
  • Philoponella republicana (Simon, 1891) (Panama to Bolivia)
  • Philoponella sabah Yoshida, 1992 (Borneo)
  • Philoponella semiplumosa (Simon, 1893) (USA, Greater Antilles to Venezuela)
  • Philoponella signatella (Roewer, 1951) (Mexico to Honduras)
  • Philoponella subvittata Opell, 1981 (Guyana)
  • Philoponella tingens (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) (Costa Rica to Colombia)
  • Philoponella truncata (Thorell, 1895) (Myanmar, Java)
  • Philoponella variabilis (Keyserling, 1887) (Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Philoponella vicina (O. P.-Cambridge, 1899) (Mexico to Costa Rica)
  • Philoponella vittata (Keyserling, 1881) (Panama to Paraguay)
  • Philoponella wuyiensis Xian et al., 1997 (China)

[edit] Literature


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