Theridion melanostictum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876

Lin, Yejie, Wu, Lingbing, Cai, Ducheng, Li, Shuqiang, Barrion, Alberto Tomas & Heong, Kong-Luen, 2023, Review of 43 spider species from Hainan Island, China (Arachnida, Araneae), Zootaxa 5351 (5), pp. 501-533 : 522

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Theridion melanostictum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 View in CoL View at ENA

Theridion melanostictum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876: 570 View in CoL (♀); Zhu, 1998: 148, fig. 90A–E (♁ ♀).

Enoplognatha angkora Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong View in CoL , in Barrion et al., 2013: 38, fig. 43A–D (♁). syn. nov.

For a complete list of taxonomic references see World Spider Catalog (2023).

Type material of Enoplognatha angkora (examined). Holotype ♁ (coll. no. So2010-1), CHINA: Hainan Island , Panja Town, Songtao Reservoir , 9–13.VIII.2010, leg. A. T. Barrion et al.

Description and diagnosis. See Zhu (1998) for a redescription and diagnosis of both sexes.

Distribution. China (Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan and Hainan), Mediterranean to Egypt, India, Central Asia, Japan, Poland, Canada, USA.

Comments. The holotype male of E. angkora was examined and it was found to be consistent with the somatic and genitalic morphology of T. melanostictum . Therefore, we consider E. angkora syn. nov. to be a junior synonym of T. melanostictum .