Synema Simon, 1864

Tang, Guo & Li, Shuqiang, 2010, Crab spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae) 2703, Zootaxa 2703, pp. 1-105 : 80

Gen. Synema Simon, 1864

Type species. Aranea globosa Fabricius, 1775: 432 .

Distribution. This genus is distributed worldwide. The type species is distributed widely in the Palaearctic.

Remarks. Synema is a large genus and includes 127 species in the world at present ( Platnick 2010). Most species were described by Dahl (1907) without figures at all. No regional revision of this genus does exist to date. This genus is characterized by the globular opisthosoma dorsally covered with large dark brown markings and yellowish white markings. There are 4 species recorded from China by now.