title: Rhomphaea
text: # Rhomphaea
  
  Rhomphaea is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of June 2020 it contains thirty-three species, found worldwide:
  
  * R. urquharti
  * R. fictilium
  * male R. labiata
  * R. projiciens
  * Rhomphaea aculeata Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
  * Rhomphaea affinis Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique
  * Rhomphaea altissima Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Brazil
  * Rhomphaea angulipalpis Thorell, 1877 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  * Rhomphaea annulipedis Yoshida & Nojima, 2010 – Japan
  * Rhomphaea barycephala (Roberts, 1983) – Seychelles (Aldabra)
  * Rhomphaea brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1920 – Venezuela, Brazil
  * Rhomphaea ceraosus (Zhu & Song, 1991) – China
  * Rhomphaea cometes L. Koch, 1872 (type) – New Guinea, Samoa, French Polynesia
  * Rhomphaea cona (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
  * Rhomphaea fictilium (Hentz, 1850) – Canada to Argentina
  * Rhomphaea hyrcana (Logunov & Marusik, 1990) – Georgia, Azerbaijan, China, Japan, Turkey?
  * Rhomphaea irrorata Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
  * Rhomphaea labiata (Zhu & Song, 1991) – India, China, Korea, Laos, Japan
  * Rhomphaea lactifera Simon, 1909 – Vietnam
  * Rhomphaea longicaudata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 – Greece, Lebanon
  * Rhomphaea metaltissima Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Panama to Brazil
  * Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873) – Canary Is., Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Africa, St. Helena
  * Rhomphaea oris (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
  * Rhomphaea ornatissima Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
  * Rhomphaea palmarensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
  * Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873) – St. Vincent, Mexico to Brazil
  * Rhomphaea pignalitoensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Argentina
  * Rhomphaea procera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Costa Rica to Argentina
  * Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 – USA to Argentina. Introduced to India
  * Rhomphaea recurvata (Saaristo, 1978) – Seychelles
  * Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873) – Canary Is., Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece
  * Rhomphaea sagana (Dönitz & Strand, 1906) – Azerbaijan, Russia (Far East), Japan, Philippines
  * Rhomphaea sinica (Zhu & Song, 1991) – China
  * Rhomphaea sjostedti Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
  * Rhomphaea tanikawai Yoshida, 2001 – China, Japan
  * Rhomphaea urquharti (Bryant, 1933) – New Zealand
  * Rhomphaea velhaensis (González & Carmen, 1996) – Brazil
  
  In synonymy:
  
  * R. argenteola (Simon, 1873) = Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873)
  * R. canariensis (Schmidt, 1956) = Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873)
  * R. delicatula (Simon, 1883) = Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873)
  * R. feioi (Mello-Leitão, 1947) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
  * R. honesta (Exline & Levi, 1962) = Rhomphaea brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1920
  * R. longa (Kulczyński, 1905) = Rhomphaea rostrata (Simon, 1873)
  * R. martinae (Exline, 1950) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
  * R. petrunkevitchi (Mello-Leitão, 1945) = Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873)
  * R. remota (Bryant, 1940) = Rhomphaea fictilium (Hentz, 1850)
  * R. simoni (Petrunkevitch, 1911) = Rhomphaea procera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898)
  * R. spinicaudata (Keyserling, 1884) = Rhomphaea paradoxa (Taczanowski, 1873)
  * R. spinosa (Badcock, 1932) = Rhomphaea projiciens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
  