Synema (spider)

Synema Temporal range:
Pale form of Synema globosum (Napoleon spider)
male S. imitatrix
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	SynemaSimon[1]

Synema is a genus of spider in the family Thomisidae, found in most parts of the world.^[1]

Species

As of October 2025, this genus includes 124 species and two subspecies.^[1]

These species have articles on Wikipedia:

• Synema decens(Karsch, 1878) – South Africa, Eswatini
• Synema diana(Audouin, 1826) – Tunisia to Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini
• Synema globosum(Fabricius, 1775) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Israel, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan (type species)
• Synema imitatrix(Pavesi, 1883) – Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini
• Synema langheldiDahl, 1907 – Somalia, Tanzania, South Africa
• Synema mandibulareDahl, 1907 – Tanzania, South Africa
• Synema marlothiDahl, 1907 – South Africa, Lesotho
• Synema nigrotibialeLessert, 1919 – Tanzania, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Yemen
• Synema parvulum(Hentz, 1847) – United States, Mexico
• Synema riflenseStrand, 1909 – South Africa
• Synema simoneaeLessert, 1919 – Tanzania, South Africa, Lesotho
• Synema vallotoniLessert, 1923 – Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Synema viridans(Banks, 1896) – United States

• 
  S. anatolicum
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  S. decens
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  S. diana
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  S. langheldi
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  S. mandibulare
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  S. marlothi

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  S. parvulum
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  S. revolutum
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  S. riflense
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  S. simoneae
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  S. utotchkini

Complete species list as of October 2025

Synema abrahamiMello-Leitão, 1948 – Guyana Synema adjunctumO. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 – Panama Synema aequinoctiale(Taczanowski, 1872) – Mexico, French Guiana Synema affinitatumO. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 – Mexico to Brazil Synema albomaculatumOno, 2001 – Bhutan Synema anatolicumDemir, Aktaş & Topçu, 2009 – North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iran Synema annulipesDahl, 1907 – Tanzania Synema bariguienseMello-Leitão, 1947 – Brazil Synema batarasaBarrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines Synema bellumSoares, 1944 – Brazil Synema berlandiLessert, 1919 – Ethiopia, Tanzania Synema bipunctatum(Taczanowski, 1872) – Brazil, French Guiana Synema bishopiCaporiacco, 1955 – Venezuela, French Guiana Synema bourginiMillot, 1942 – Guinea Synema buettneriDahl, 1907 – Cameroon, Togo Synema camerunenseDahl, 1907 – Cameroon Synema candicans(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Egypt Synema caucasicumUtochkin, 1960 – Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan Synema cervinumSchenkel, 1936 – China Synema chikuniiOno, 1983 – Japan Synema concolorCaporiacco, 1947 – Tanzania Synema conradtiDahl, 1907 – Cameroon Synema curvatumDahl, 1907 – Kenya, Tanzania Synema decens(Karsch, 1878) – South Africa, Eswatini Synema decoratumTikader, 1960 – India, China Synema diana(Audouin, 1826) – Tunisia to Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini Synema fasciatumMello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil Synema fiebrigiDahl, 1907 – Paraguay Synema fischeriDahl, 1907 – Somalia Synema flavimanusDahl, 1907 – Kenya Synema flavipesDahl, 1907 – Togo Synema flavumDahl, 1907 – Tanzania Synema flexuosumDahl, 1907 – East Africa (no details) Synema fuelleborniDahl, 1907 – Tanzania Synema fuscomandibulatumPetrunkevitch, 1925 – Panama Synema glaucothoraxPiza, 1934 – Brazil Synema globosum(Fabricius, 1775) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Israel, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan (type species) S. g. canarienseDahl, 1907 – Canary Islands Synema gracilipesDahl, 1907 – Kenya Synema guiyangJ. S. Zhang, Lu & Yu, 2022 – China Synema haemorrhoidaleDahl, 1907 – Paraguay Synema haenschiDahl, 1907 – Guatemala, Brazil Synema helvolumSimon, 1907 – Guinea-Bissau Synema hildebrandtiDahl, 1907 – Madagascar Synema hirtipesDahl, 1907 – Zimbabwe Synema illustreKeyserling, 1880 – Peru Synema imitatrix(Pavesi, 1883) – Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini Synema inexpectatumSeropian, Bulbulashvili, Makharadze & Baznikin, 2024 – Georgia Synema interjectivumMello-Leitão, 1947 – Brazil Synema jaspideumSimon, 1907 – Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko) Synema lanceolatumMello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil Synema langheldiDahl, 1907 – Somalia, Tanzania, South Africa Synema laticepsDahl, 1907 – Tanzania Synema latispinumKeyserling, 1883 – Peru Synema latissimumDahl, 1907 – Togo Synema lineatumThorell, 1895 – Singapore Synema longipesDahl, 1907 – Togo Synema longispinosumDahl, 1907 – Tanzania Synema lopeziJiménez, 1988 – Mexico Synema lunulatumDahl, 1907 – Madagascar Synema luridumKeyserling, 1880 – Peru Synema luteovittatumKeyserling, 1891 – Brazil Synema maculatovittatumCaporiacco, 1954 – French Guiana Synema maculosumO. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 – Guatemala, Panama Synema madidumO. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 – Mexico Synema mandibulareDahl, 1907 – Tanzania, South Africa Synema marcidumSimon, 1907 – Guinea-Bissau Synema marlothiDahl, 1907 – South Africa, Lesotho Synema multipunctatum(Simon, 1895) – Yemen, DR Congo, Guinea Synema mysorenseTikader, 1980 – India Synema nangokuOno, 2002 – China, Japan Synema neomexicanumGertsch, 1939 – United States Synema nigrianumMello-Leitão, 1929 – Venezuela to Brazil Synema nigriventerDahl, 1907 – Tanzania Synema nigrotibialeLessert, 1919 – Tanzania, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Yemen Synema nigrumKeyserling, 1880 – Peru Synema nitidulumSimon, 1929 – Brazil Synema obscurifronsDahl, 1907 – Madagascar Synema obscuripesDahl, 1907 – Madagascar Synema opulentumSimon, 1886 – Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra) S. o. birmanicumThorell, 1887 – Myanmar Synema ornatum(Thorell, 1875) – Hungary, Albania, Ukraine, Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Azerbaijan Synema palliatumO. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 – Panama Synema papuanellumStrand, 1913 – New Guinea Synema paraenseMello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil Synema parvulum(Hentz, 1847) – United States, Mexico Synema pauciaculeisCaporiacco, 1947 – Tanzania Synema pereiraiSoares, 1943 – Brazil Synema pichoniSchenkel, 1963 – China Synema plorator(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Eastern Europe, Tunesia, Middle East, Caucasus, Iran to Central Asia Synema pluripunctatumMello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil Synema pusillumCaporiacco, 1955 – Venezuela Synema putumO. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 – Guatemala Synema quadratumMello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil Synema quadrifasciatumDahl, 1907 – Tanzania Synema quadrimaculatumRoewer, 1961 – Senegal Synema reimoseriLessert, 1928 – Congo Synema revolutumTang & Li, 2010 – China, India Synema riflenseStrand, 1909 – South Africa Synema rubromaculatumKeyserling, 1880 – Colombia, Brazil Synema scalareStrand, 1913 – Uganda Synema scheffleriDahl, 1907 – Kenya Synema schulziDahl, 1907 – Brazil Synema setiferumMello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil Synema simoneaeLessert, 1919 – Tanzania, South Africa, Lesotho Synema sociumO. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 – Panama Synema spinosumMello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil Synema spiraleDahl, 1907 – South America Synema steckeriDahl, 1907 – Togo, Sudan Synema subabnormeCaporiacco, 1947 – Uganda Synema suteriDahl, 1907 – New Zealand Synema tadzhikistanicumUtochkin, 1960 – Central Asia Synema ternetziMello-Leitão, 1939 – Paraguay Synema tibialeDahl, 1907 – Malawi Synema togoenseDahl, 1907 – Togo Synema tricalcaratumMello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil Synema trimaculosumSchmidt, 1956 – Ecuador Synema utotchkiniMarusik & Logunov, 1995 – North Macedonia, Turkey, Russia (Europe, West Siberia), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Synema vachoniJézéquel, 1964 – Ivory Coast Synema valentineriDahl, 1907 – Egypt Synema vallotoniLessert, 1923 – Zimbabwe, South Africa Synema variabileCaporiacco, 1939 – Ethiopia Synema viridans(Banks, 1896) – United States Synema viridisterneJézéquel, 1966 – Ivory Coast Synema vittatumKeyserling, 1880 – Peru Synema zonatumTang & Song, 1988 – China

References

1. "Gen. Synema Simon, 1864". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-13.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Synema at iNaturalist