{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Neospintharus trigonum 3.jpg | image_caption = ''N. trigonum'', male | taxon = Neospintharus | authority = Exline, 1950<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''N. parvus'' | type_species_authority = Exline, 1950 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 13, see text }} '''''Neospintharus''''' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by H. Exline in 1950.<ref name=Exli1950>{{citation| last=Exline| first=H.| year=1950| contribution=Conopisthine spiders (Theridiidae) from Peru and Ecuador| title=Studies Honoring Trevor Kincaid}}</ref> It was synonymized with ''Argyrodes'' in 1962,<ref name=Exli1962>{{cite journal| last1=Exline| first1=H.| last2=Levi| first2=H. W.| year=1962| title=American spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae, Theridiidae)| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| volume=127| pages=75–204| author-link2=Herbert_Walter_Levi}}</ref> but revalidated in 2004.<ref name=Agna2004>{{cite journal| last=Agnarsson| first=I.| year=2004| title=Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae)| journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society| volume=141| issue=4| pages=447–626| doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x| url=https://zenodo.org/record/5431156}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2019|09}} it contains thirteen species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Central America, Asia, Mexico, Turkey, the United States, and Canada:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Neospintharus Exline, 1950| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-10-27| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3511| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Neospintharus baboquivari'' <small>(Exline & Levi, 1962)</small> – USA, Mexico *''Neospintharus baekamensis'' <small>Seo, 2010</small> – Korea *''Neospintharus bicornis'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880)</small> – Brazil *''Neospintharus concisus'' <small>(Exline & Levi, 1962)</small> – Mexico *''Neospintharus fur'' <small>(Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)</small> – China, Korea, Japan *''Neospintharus furcatus'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)</small> – USA to El Salvador, Caribbean *''Neospintharus nipponicus'' <small>(Kumada, 1990)</small> – China, Korea, Japan *''Neospintharus obscurus'' <small>(Keyserling, 1884)</small> – Peru *''Neospintharus parvus'' <small>Exline, 1950</small> (type) – Panama to Ecuador *''Neospintharus rioensis'' <small>(Exline & Levi, 1962)</small> – Brazil, Argentina *''Neospintharus syriacus'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)</small> – Turkey, Lebanon, Israel *''Neospintharus triangularis'' <small>(Taczanowski, 1873)</small> – Panama, French Guiana *''Neospintharus trigonum'' <small>(Hentz, 1850)</small> – USA, Canada
'''In synonymy:''' *''N. bifissus'' <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902)</small> = ''Neospintharus furcatus'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)</small> *''N. frontatus'' <small>(Banks, 1908)</small> = ''Neospintharus furcatus'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)</small> *''N. gansuensis'' <small>(Zhu, 1998)</small> = ''Neospintharus fur'' <small>(Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)</small> *''N. montanus'' <small>(Keyserling, 1884)</small> = ''Neospintharus obscurus'' <small>(Keyserling, 1884)</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Theridiidae genera Category:Cosmopolitan spiders Category:Theridiidae
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