''Spheropistha'' is a

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of Asian comb-footed spiders that was first described by T. Yaginuma in 1957.

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it contains seven species, found in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, and

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

: *'' Spheropistha huangsangensis'' (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) –

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Spheropistha melanosoma ''Spheropistha'' is a genus of Asian Theridiidae, comb-footed spiders that was first described by T. Yaginuma in 1957. Species it contains seven species, found in Taiwan, Japan, and China: *''Spheropistha huangsangensis'' (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) ...

'' Yaginuma, 1957 ( type) –

, Korea? *'' Spheropistha miyashitai'' (Tanikawa, 1998) – Japan *'' Spheropistha nigroris'' (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000) –

*'' Spheropistha orbita'' (Zhu, 1998) – China *'' Spheropistha rhomboides'' (Yin, Peng & Bao, 2004) – China *'' Spheropistha xinhua'' Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 – China

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