Hentziectypus

Hentziectypus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1946.^[2] Originally placed with Theridion, it was moved to Achaearanea in 1955,^[3] and to its own genus in 2008.^[4] These spiders most resemble members of Cryptachaea, but are distinguished by a median apophysis that is broadly attached to the tegulum. Spiders of Parasteatoda have a median apophysis attached to the embolus, while those of Achaearanea have a hooked paracymbium on the pedipalps of males.^[4]

Species

As of September 2019^[update] it contains twelve species, found in the Americas and in the Caribbean, including Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, and Bermuda:^[1]

In synonymy:

H. credulus (Gertsch & Davis, 1936) = Hentziectypus schullei (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936)
H. mendax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) = Hentziectypus florens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896)

^ ^a ^b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Hentziectypus Archer, 1946". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
^ Archer, A. F. (1946). "The Theridiidae or comb-footed spiders of Alabama". Museum Paper, Alabama Museum of Natural History. 22: 1–67.
^ Levi, H. W. (1955). "The spider genera Coressa and Achaearanea in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae)". American Museum Novitates (1718): 1–33.
^ ^a ^b Yoshida, H. (2008). "A revision of the genus Achaearanea (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Acta Arachnologica. 57: 38. doi:10.2476/asjaa.57.37.

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