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Small spider found on  Argiope aurantia web.

Small spider found on Argiope aurantia web.
Chalk Mountain area, Somervell County, Texas, USA
October 5, 2010
Size: 2 mm
This individual is roughly the same size as typical Argyrodes elevatus - slightly smaller, but colored quite differently. Several similar individuals on the web. Moving actively compared to elevatus that were also present on the web.

Also present on the web were different individuals and/or "types." .

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Small spider found on  Argiope aurantia web. Small spider found on  Argiope aurantia web. Small spider found on  Argiope aurantia web.

Moved
Moved from Spiders.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

How do you feel
about moving these to Argyrodes/Faiditus/Neospintharus/Rhomphaea until we make a decision? It may take us a while unless we are willing to just make a best guess that it's elevatus.

 
Or at Argyrodes genus taxon?
These look nothing like BugGuide Rhomphaea images and not much like Neospintharus images. There is no taxon for Faiditus.

And shouldn't the Argyrodes/Faiditus/Neospintharus/Rhomphaea set be under Theridiidae rather than Argyrodes?

 
No taxon is actually under Family Theridiidae
already. It just appears like it's under Argyrodes because it's a No Taxon instead of a genus and the words No Taxon take up more space than the word Genus. You can see the taxonomy here. Because most of the Argyrodes have been moved to other genera I think we either need to place this directly to elevatus if we are willing to make that call, or we need to place them at Argyrodes/Faiditus/Neospintharus/Rhomphaea. You can see the new genera for these old Argyrodes below...

Rhomphaea fictilium - eastern TX
Rhomphaea projiciens - south central TX
Neospintharus trigonum - very eastern border of TX
Neospintharus furcatus - eastern half of TX
Argyrodes elevatus - eastern half of TX
Argyrodes pluto - central, southern TX
Faiditus americanus - southern tip of TX
Faiditus globosus - very eastern border of TX
Faiditus caudatus - very southern tip of TX
Faiditus cancellatus - eastern TX
Faiditus davisi - very southern tip of TX
Faiditus subdolus - central & southern TX

 
I understand
And because the list is alphabetical. If the name was "Uncertain Argyrodes/Faiditus/Neospintharus/Rhomphaea" it would drop to the end, or "#Uncertain Argyrodes/Faiditus/Neospintharus/Rhomphaea" would be first.

I discovered taxonomy changes, but wasn't sure if they were proposed or official.

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