''Orsinome'' is a
genus
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of
long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by
Tamerlan Thorell
Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Sweden, Swedish arachnologist.
Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Oc ...
in 1890.
It is included in the ''Nanometa'' clade, defined by nine
morphological synapomorphies
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, along with ''
Eryciniolia'' and ''
Nanometa''.
Species
it contains thirteen species, found in Oceania, Asia, and on
Madagascar
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:
*''
Orsinome armata''
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, 1901 – India
*''
Orsinome cavernicola''
(Thorell, 1878) – Indonesia (Ambon)
*''
Orsinome daiqin''
Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
*''
Orsinome diporusa''
Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
*''
Orsinome elberti''
Strand, 1911 – Timor
*''
Orsinome jiarui''
Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
*''
Orsinome lorentzi''
Kulczyński, 1911 – New Guinea
*''
Orsinome megaloverpa''
Hormiga & Kallal, 2018 – Philippines
*''
Orsinome monulfi''
Chrysanthus, 1971 – New Guinea
*''
Orsinome phrygiana''
Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
*''
Orsinome pilatrix''
(Thorell, 1878) – Indonesia (Ambon)
*''
Orsinome trappensis''
Schenkel, 1953 – China
*''
Orsinome vethi''
(Hasselt, 1882) (
type) – India, China, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia (
Sumatra
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,
Java
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,
Flores
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)
In synonymy:
*''O. listeri''
Gravely, 1921 = ''Orsinome vethi''
(Hasselt, 1882)
*''O. nepula''
(Tikader, 1970) = ''Orsinome vethi''
(Hasselt, 1882)
See also
*
List of Tetragnathidae species
* ''
Eryciniolia''
* ''
Nanometa''
References
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Asia
Spiders of Madagascar
Spiders of Oceania
Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell
Tetragnathidae
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