Spintharidius

Spintharidius is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.[3] As of April 2019 it contains only two species found in South America and the Caribbean.[1]

Spintharidius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Spintharidius
Simon, 1893[1]
Type species
S. rhomboidalis
Simon, 1893
Species
  • S. rhomboidalis Simon, 1893 – Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay
  • S. viridis Franganillo, 1926 – Cuba
Synonyms[1]
  • Madrepeira Levi, 1995[2]

References
  1. "Gen. Spintharidius Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  2. Levi, H. W. (2008). "The South American genus Spintharidius (Araneae, Araneidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 36: 216.
  3. Simon, E. (1893). "Études arachnologiques. 25e Mémoire. XL. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 62: 299–330.


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