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Theridula gonygaster (Simon) 
Map 2 
Thcridium gonygaster Simon, 1873, Mem. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liege, (2)5:109. 
Male lectotype designated by Levi, 1954, in the Museum National d’His- 
toire Naturelle, Paris. 
Theridula gonygaster y — Levi, 1954, Trans. Amer. Microscop. Soc., 73:340, 
figs. 18-22, $ $. 
Distribution. Worldwide tropical. In America from Arizona, 
southern Florida, eastern Mexico, West Indies to Rio de Janeiro, 
Brazil. 
Additional records. United States. Arizona: Cochise Co. Cave 
Creek Canyon. Columbia. Valle: Buenaventura, 4 Nov. 1950 (E. I. 
Schlinger, E. S. Ross). Ecuador. Guavas: Milagro (H. E., D. L. 
Frizzell); Guayaquil (Landes, H. E., D. L. Frizzell). El Oro: 
5 km above Pasaje (R. Walls). Peru. Piura: Sulana, banana grove 
(H. E., D. L. Frizzell) ; Higueron, Las Lomas (H. E., D. L. Friz- 
zell). Luna: San Antonio (E. I. Schlinger, E. S. Ross). 
Theridula nigerrima (Petrunkevitch) 
Figures 3-5, Map 3 
Dipoena nigra Keyserling, 1886, Die Spinnen Amerikas, Theridiidae, 2(2): 
43, pi, 12, fig. 158, $ $. Female lectotype here designated from 
Pumamarca [PPumamanta, Junin], Peru, in the Polish Academy of 
Sciences, Warsaw; examined. Name preoccupied by D. nigra Emerton, 
1882. 
Dipoena nigerrima Petrunkevitch, 1911, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 29: 
174. New name for D. nigra Keyserling, preoccupied. 
Diagnosis. The openings of the epigynum are on the anterior edge 
of a sclerotized plate (Fig. 5), quite different from T. gonygaster 
which lacks this plate. The connecting canals seem straight and 
short (Fig. 4). The shape of the narrow pointed embolus (Fig. 3) 
separates T. nigerrima from T. gonygaster. 
Records. Ecuador. Azuay: Cuenca, 3 Apr. 1942, $ (H. E., D. L. 
Frizzell). Peru. Cuzco: Machu Picchu, 3000 m elev., 6 Mar. 
1947, 2 cT (J. C. Pallister) . 
Theridula multiguttata Keyserling 
Figures 1, 2. Map 3 
Theridula multiguttata Keyserling, 1886, Die Spinnen Amerikas, Theridiidae, 
2: 258, pi. 21, fig. 306, $. Female holotype from Blumenau, [Santa 
Catarina], Brazil, in the British Museum (Natural History) ; examined. 
The shorter straight connecting ducts (Fig. 4) separate this species 
from T. gonygaster. 
