Platnickina

Platnickina is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by A. Ö. Koçak & M. Kemal in 2008.

Description
As comb-footed spiders, Platnickina have two body segments (prosoma and opisthosoma) and eight legs. The tarsi of the final leg pair have rows of strong, serrated bristles ventrally.

Platnickina can be distinguished from other theridiid genera by the presence of trichobothria on the metatarsi of the third leg pair, the opisthosoma not being higher than it is long, and the absence of a colulus. Also, the European species at least are bright yellow with black mottling.

Species
it contains eleven species, found worldwide:
 * Platnickina alabamensis (Gertsch & Archer, 1942) – USA, Canada
 * Platnickina antoni (Keyserling, 1884) – USA
 * Platnickina fritilla Gao & Li, 2014 – China
 * Platnickina kijabei (Berland, 1920) – East Africa
 * Platnickina maculata (Yoshida, 2001) (type) – Japan
 * Platnickina mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – South America. Introduced to Ghana, Seychelles, China, Japan, Pacific Is.
 * Platnickina nigropunctata (Lucas, 1846) – Mediterranean
 * Platnickina punctosparsa (Emerton, 1882) – USA
 * Platnickina qionghaiensis (Zhu, 1998) – China
 * Platnickina sterninotata (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
 * Platnickina tincta (Walckenaer, 1802) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Iran

In synonymy:
 * P. adamsoni (Berland, 1934) = Platnickina mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
 * P. blatchleyi (Bryant, 1945) = Platnickina mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
 * P. cinerascens (Roewer, 1942) = Platnickina alabamensis (Gertsch & Archer, 1942)
 * P. hobbsi (Gertsch & Archer, 1942) = Platnickina mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
 * P. insulicola (Bryant, 1947) = Platnickina mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
 * P. talmo (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944) = Platnickina alabamensis (Gertsch & Archer, 1942)