''Phoroncidia'' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. O. Westwood in 1835.

Species

it contains seventy-nine species and one subspecies, found worldwide: *'' P. aciculata'' Thorell, 1877 – Indonesia (

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) *'' P. aculeata'' Westwood, 1835 (

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) – India,

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*'' P. alishanensis'' Chen, 1990 – Taiwan *'' P. altiventris'' Yoshida, 1985 –

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*'' P. alveolata'' ( Simon, 1903) –

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*'' P. ambatolahy'' Kariko, 2014 – Madagascar *'' P. americana'' ( Emerton, 1882) – USA, Canada, Cuba, Jamaica *'' P. argoides'' (

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, 1857) – Indonesia (Ambon) *'' P. aurata''

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, 1877 – Madagascar *'' P. bifrons'' (Simon, 1895) – Philippines *'' P. biocellata'' (Simon, 1893) – Brazil *'' P. bukolana'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines *'' P. capensis'' (Simon, 1895) – South Africa *'' P. concave'' Yin & Xu, 2012 – China *'' P. coracina'' (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (

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) *'' P. cribrata'' (Simon, 1893) – Paraguay *'' P. crustula'' Zhu, 1998 – China *'' P. cygnea'' (Hickman, 1951) –

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( Tasmania) *'' P. eburnea'' (Simon, 1895) – South Africa *'' P. ellenbergeri'' Berland, 1913 – Gabon *'' P. escalerai'' (Simon, 1903) – Equatorial Guinea *'' P. flavolimbata'' (Simon, 1893) – Ecuador *'' P. floripara'' Gao & Li, 2014 – China *'' P. fumosa'' (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile *'' P. gayi'' (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile *'' P. gira'' Levi, 1964 – Venezuela *'' P. hankiewiczi'' (

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, 1911) – Portugal, Spain, France *'' P. hexacantha'' Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra) *'' P. jacobsoni'' (Reimoser, 1925) – Indonesia (Sumatra) *'' P. kibonotensis'' ( Tullgren, 1910) –

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**'' Phoroncidia k. concolor'' ( Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya *'' P. levii'' Chrysanthus, 1963 – New Guinea *'' P. longiceps'' (

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, 1886) – Brazil *'' P. lygeana'' ( Walckenaer, 1841) – Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Borneo) *'' P. maindroni'' (Simon, 1905) – India *'' P. minuta'' (Spassky, 1932) – Georgia, Azerbaijan *'' P. moyobamba'' Levi, 1964 – Peru, Brazil *'' P. musiva'' (Simon, 1880) –

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*'' P. nasuta'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) –

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, Taiwan, Japan *'' P. nicoleti'' ( Roewer, 1942) – Chile *'' P. nicoleti'' Levi, 1964 – Chile *'' P. oahuensis'' (Simon, 1900) – Hawaii *'' P. paradoxa'' (Lucas, 1846) – Southern Europe, North Africa, Turkey *'' P. pennata'' (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile *'' P. personata'' ( L. Koch, 1872) – Samoa,

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, Australia (Lord Howe Is.) *'' P. pilula'' ( Karsch, 1879) – Georgia, Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan *'' P. pilula'' (Simon, 1895) – Tanzania (Zanzibar) *'' P. piratini'' Rodrigues & Marques, 2010 – Brazil *'' P. pukeiwa'' ( Marples, 1955) – New Zealand *'' P. puketoru'' (Marples, 1955) – New Zealand *'' P. puyehue'' Levi, 1967 – Chile *'' P. quadrata'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – New Zealand *'' P. ravot'' Levi, 1964 – Venezuela *'' P. reimoseri'' Levi, 1964 – Brazil *'' P. roseleviorum'' Kariko, 2014 – Madagascar *'' P. rotunda'' (Keyserling, 1890) – Australia ( Queensland, Lord Howe Is.), Samoa *'' P. rubens'' Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon *'' P. rubroargentea'' Berland, 1913 – Madagascar *'' P. rubromaculata'' (Keyserling, 1886) – Brazil *'' P. ryukyuensis'' Yoshida, 1979 – Taiwan, Japan (Ryukyu Is.) *'' P. saboya'' Levi, 1964 –

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*'' P. scutellata'' (

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, 1879) – Peru *'' P. scutula'' (Nicolet, 1849) –

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, Chile *'' P. septemaculeata'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873 – India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia *'' P. sextuberculata'' (Keyserling, 1890) – Australia (Queensland) *'' P. sjostedti'' Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania *'' P. spissa'' (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile *'' P. splendida'' Thorell, 1899 – West Africa *'' P. studo'' Levi, 1964 – Peru, Brazil *'' P. testudo'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – India, Sri Lanka *'' P. thwaitesi'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 – Sri Lanka *'' P. tina'' Levi, 1964 – Brazil *'' P. tricuspidata'' ( Blackwall, 1863) – Brazil *'' P. trituberculata'' (Hickman, 1951) – Australia (Tasmania) *'' P. triunfo'' Levi, 1964 – Mexico to Costa Rica *'' P. truncatula'' ( Strand, 1909) – South Africa *'' P. umbrosa'' (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile *'' P. variabilis'' (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile *'' P. vatoharanana'' Kariko, 2014 – Madagascar *'' P. wrightae'' Kariko, 2014 – Madagascar Formerly included: *''P. flavomaculata'' (Keyserling, 1891) (Transferred to ''

Dipoena ''Dipoena'' is a genus of tangle-web spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. Species it contains 162 species, found in Asia, Central America, North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, South America, on Vanuatu, an ...

'') *''P. sudabides'' (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (Transferred to ''

Chrosiothes ''Chrosiothes'' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894. It is considered a senior synonym of ''Theridiotis''. They have thick legs and two minute setae in place of a colulus. Males are noticea ...

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*''P. quadrispinella'' Strand, 1907

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