Asiopisinus ornithorrhynchus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Araneoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Theridiidae
Subfamilia: Spintharinae
Genus: Asiopisinus
Species: Asiopisinus ornithorrhynchus

Name

Asiopisinus ornithorrhynchus (Liu et al., 2022)

Type locality: CHINA, Yunnan Province: Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Menghai County, Mengsong Town, Mengsong Township Central Promary School; 22.0731°N, 100.5600°E; elev. 1300 m.

Holotype: CBEE. male ♂. 01.VIII.2020. legit Z.C. Li et al. LJ202004222 .

Synonymy

• Episinus ornithorrhynchus Liu et al., 2022: 35 (original combination)
• Asiopisinus ornithorrhynchus Liu et al. - Hu et al., 2025: 483

References

Primary references

• Liu, F-J., Agnarsson, I., Liu, J. & Zhu, Y. 2022. Description and phylogenetic analysis of two new Episinus (Araneae, Theridiidae) species from China. Zookeys 1125ː 33–46. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1125.90212 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Hu, C.H., Wei, M., Liu, J. & Xu, X. 2025. Asiopisinus gen. nov., a new genus of the family Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833 (Araneae, Theridiidae) from eastern Asia. Zootaxa 5660(4): 475–504. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.2. Reference page.