Neospintharus is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by H. Exline in 1950. It was synonymized with Argyrodes in 1962, but revalidated in 2004.
Species it contains thirteen species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Central America, Asia, Mexico, Turkey, the United States, and Canada: Neospintharus baboquivari (Exline & Levi, 1962) – USA, Mexico Neospintharus baekamensis Seo, 2010 – Korea Neospintharus bicornis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – Brazil Neospintharus concisus (Exline & Levi, 1962) – Mexico Neospintharus fur (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Japan Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) – USA to El Salvador, Caribbean Neospintharus nipponicus (Kumada, 1990) – China, Korea, Japan Neospintharus obscurus (Keyserling, 1884) – Peru Neospintharus parvus Exline, 1950 (type) – Panama to Ecuador Neospintharus rioensis (Exline & Levi, 1962) – Brazil, Argentina Neospintharus syriacus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Turkey, Lebanon, Israel Neospintharus triangularis (Taczanowski, 1873) – Panama, French Guiana Neospintharus trigonum (Hentz, 1850) – USA, Canada
In synonymy: N. bifissus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) = Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) N. frontatus (Banks, 1908) = Neospintharus furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) N. gansuensis (Zhu, 1998) = Neospintharus fur (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) N. montanus (Keyserling, 1884) = Neospintharus obscurus (Keyserling, 1884)
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