Paratheuma is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Argyronetidae. It was first described by Elizabeth B. Bryant in 1940. Originally placed with the ground spiders, it was transferred to the intertidal spiders in 1975, and to the Dictynidae in 2016.
Species
, this genus includes twelve species:
- Paratheuma andromeda <small>Beatty & Berry, 1989</small> â Cook Islands
- Paratheuma armata <small>(Marples, 1964)</small> â Caroline Islands to Samoa
- Paratheuma australis <small>Beatty & Berry, 1989</small> â Australia (Queensland), Fiji
- Paratheuma awasensis <small>Shimojana, 2013</small> â Japan (Okinawa)
- Paratheuma draneyi <small>Berry, 2024</small> â New Zealand
- Paratheuma enigmatica <small>Zamani, Marusik & Berry, 2016</small> â Iran
- Paratheuma insulana <small>(Banks, 1902)</small> â United States, Caribbean. Introduced to China (Hainan), Japan (type species)
- Paratheuma interaesta <small>(Roth & Brown, 1975)</small> â Mexico
- Paratheuma makai <small>Berry & Beatty, 1989</small> â Hawaii
- Paratheuma ramseyae <small>Beatty & Berry, 1989</small> â Cook Islands
- Paratheuma rangiroa <small>Beatty & Berry, 1989</small> â Polynesia
- Paratheuma shirahamaensis <small>(Oi, 1960)</small> â China, Korea, Japan
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