TL;DR: The results suggest the monophyletic origin of both kleptoparasitism and araneophagy in the lineage leading to Argyrodinae, negating hypotheses that either arose from the other.
TL;DR: A revision of the New World ‘eximius lineage’ containing the most intensely studied Anelosimus species, and a phylogenetic study including worldwide exemplars, corroborate previous findings of convergent evolution of permanent sociality in the genus.
Abstract: While examining types of theridiid spiders in European museums, I discovered that the. genus Theridiotis Levi, I954, is a synonym, of Chrosiothes Simon. In the meantime, additional species have been found of Chrosiothes, and also o.f Stemmops, revised in I955. In addition, in Simon’s large collections from Venezuela, a theridiid spider was found that could not be placed in any known genus. A National Science Foundation Grant (G-4317) made possible
TL;DR: The monophyly of Spintharinae is supported in agreement with previous analysis of Theridiidae by Agnarsson and Arnedo et al. with Stemmops as sister to a clade that includes the remaining ingroup taxa.
Abstract: The monophyly of Spintharinae is supported in agreement with previous analysis of Theridiidae by Agnarsson and Arnedo et al. We study the relationships of the genera within Spintharinae. Fourteen species in the genera Chrosiothes, Episinus, Spintharus, Steninops, and Thwaitesia constituted the ingroup, while five species from the genera Euryopis and Dipoena (Hadrotarsinae), as well as Latrodectus and Steatoda (Latrodectinae), served as outgroup taxa. The character matrix included 49 morphological characters. Parsimony analyses using several character weighting strategies supported the monophyly of Spintharinae with Stemmops as sister to a clade that includes the remaining ingroup taxa. Chrosiothes emerged as sister to Episinus + Spintharus + Thwaitesia which formed a polytomy. The equally weighted, successive weighted, and preferred implied weight topologies, were all logically consistent. A key to the genera of Spintharinae and diagnoses for each genus are given.
TL;DR: The only record of spider's from Cholla Namdo was made by T. Kambe in 1953 and included 24 species belonging to 8 families and a total of 50 species belong to 15 families, including 5 unrecorded species from Korea, were identified.
Abstract: The only record of spider's from Cholla Namdo was made by T. Kambe in 1953. They were collected from Mokpo area which is located south-west coast of Cholla Namdo and included 24 species belonging to 8 families. In this paper are given for the first time a iist of spiders from Kwangju City, inland of Cholla Namdo. wis located at the center of Cholla Namdo. More than 5,000 individual spiders were collected by one of the junior author, J.K. Yoon during autumn in 1570. In spite ef rather large number of spiders were collected, collecting season and the locality are restricted, number of species was reiatit·ely small and many young spiders were undeterminable, A total of 50 species belong to 15 families, including 5 unrecorded species from Korea, were identified. Unrecorded species were as follows: Uloborus yesoensis Pirate piraticus Stemmops sp. Trochosa ruricola Erigone koshiensis , 1960