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BugGuide Gathering
Smoky Mountains
University of Tennessee Biological Field Station
August 8-10, 2008
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Genus Theridion

Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynes)
Family Theridiidae (Cobweb Spiders)
Genus Theridion
Numbers
Texas Species:
Theridion australe Banks, 1899
Theridion cameronense Levi, 1957
Theridion cinctipes Banks, 1898
Theridion cynicum Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936
Theridion differens Emerton, 1882
Theridion dilutum Levi, 1957
Theridion dividuum Gertsch & Archer, 1942
Theridion flavonotatum Becker, 1879
Theridion frondeum Hentz, 1850
Theridion glaucescens Becker, 1879
Theridion goodnightorum Levi, 1957
Theridion hidalgo Levi, 1957
Theridion llano Levi, 1957
Theridion murarium Emerton, 1882
Theridion myersi Levi, 1957
Theridion positivum Chamberlin, 1924
Theridion rabuni Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944
Theridion submissum Gertsch & Davis, 1936
Remarks
One tropical species, Theridion nigroannulatum, not in our area, is social.
Print References
Spiders of the Eastern US, Howell and Jenkins, pages 111 - 112.