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iPhiloponella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Family: Uloboridae Genus: Philoponella Mello-Leitão, 1917
Species
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Philoponella is a genus of uloborid spiders. Like all Uloboridae, these species have no venom.

The species P. vicinus uses its silk to crush its victims to death.

[edit] Distribution

Philoponella species occur pantropical in the Americas, Africa, southeastern Asia and Australia, with almost half of them from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

[edit] Species

• Philoponella angolensis (Lessert, 1933) (Ivory Coast, Angola)
• Philoponella arizonica (Gertsch, 1936) (USA, Mexico)
• Philoponella bella Opell, 1979 (Colombia)
• Philoponella collina (Keyserling, 1883) (Peru)
• Philoponella congregabilis (Rainbow, 1916) (New South Wales)
• Philoponella cymbiformis Xian et al., 1997 (China)
• Philoponella divisa Opell, 1979 (Colombia)
• Philoponella fasciata (Mello-Leitão, 1917) (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina)
• Philoponella gibberosa (Kulczyn'ski, 1908) (Java)
• Philoponella herediae Opell, 1987 (Costa Rica)
• Philoponella hilaris (Simon, 1906) (India)
• Philoponella lingulata Dong, Zhu & Yoshida, 2005 (China)
• Philoponella lunaris (C. L. Koch, 1839) (Brazil)
• Philoponella mollis (Thorell, 1895) (Myanmar)
• Philoponella nasuta (Thorell, 1895) (China, Myanmar)
• Philoponella nigromaculata Yoshida, 1992 (Taiwan)
• Philoponella operosa (Simon, 1896) (South Africa)
• Philoponella oweni (Chamberlin, 1924) (USA, Mexico)
• Philoponella pantherina (Keyserling, 1890) (New South Wales)
• Philoponella para Opell, 1979 (Paraguay, Argentina)
• Philoponella pisiformis Dong, Zhu & Yoshida, 2005 (China)
• Philoponella pomelita Grismado, 2004 (Argentina)
• Philoponella prominens (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (China, Korea, Japan)
• Philoponella quadrituberculata (Thorell, 1892) (Java, Moluccas)
• Philoponella raffrayi (Simon, 1891) (Java, Moluccas)
• Philoponella ramirezi Grismado, 2004 (Brazil)
• Philoponella republicana (Simon, 1891) (Panama to Bolivia)
• Philoponella sabah Yoshida, 1992 (Borneo)
• Philoponella semiplumosa (Simon, 1893) (USA, Greater Antilles to Venezuela)
• Philoponella signatella (Roewer, 1951) (Mexico to Honduras)
• Philoponella subvittata Opell, 1981 (Guyana)
• Philoponella tingens (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) (Costa Rica to Colombia)
• Philoponella truncata (Thorell, 1895) (Myanmar, Java)
• Philoponella variabilis (Keyserling, 1887) (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Philoponella vicina (O. P.-Cambridge, 1899) (Mexico to Costa Rica)
• Philoponella vittata (Keyserling, 1881) (Panama to Paraguay)
• Philoponella wuyiensis Xian et al., 1997 (China)

[edit] Literature

• Christian J. Grismado 2004. Two new species of the genus Philoponella from Brazil and Argentina (Araneae, Uloboridae). Iheringia, Sér. Zool., Porto Alegre, 94(1):105-109
• Opell, B.D. 1987. The new species Philoponella herediae and its modified orb-web (Araneae, Uloboridae). J. Arachnol., 15:59-63