World Spider Catalog

Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Hadrotarsidae Thorell, 1881 (removed from the synonymy of Oonopidae by Roewer, 1963a: 122, contra Roewer, 1942a: 287) by Forster, Platnick & Coddington, 1990: 111 (after Wunderlich, 1978a: 25 and Wunderlich, 1986: 95, contra Baert, 1984a: 615 and Davies, 1985: 67), who recognized an expanded Hadrotarsinae as well as a separate subfamily Spintharinae.

Gen. Coleosoma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00676

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Theridion Walckenaer, 1805 by Bryant, 1940: 303 and Bryant, 1944: 51 (contra Simon, 1894a: 550).

Transferred to other genera:

Coleosoma adamsoni (Berland, 1934) -- see Platnickina

Coleosoma margaritum Yoshida, 1985 -- see Neottiura

In synonymy:

Coleosoma acrobeles (Thorell, 1895, T from Chrysso) = Coleosoma blandum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (Roberts, 1978: 915)

Coleosoma albovittatum (Caporiacco, 1955, T from Theridion) = Coleosoma floridanum Banks, 1900 (Levi, 1959a: 6)

Coleosoma aleipata (Marples, 1955, T from Theridion) = Coleosoma floridanum Banks, 1900 (Levi, 1959a: 6)

Coleosoma antheae (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995, T from Theridion) = Coleosoma floridanum Banks, 1900 (Knoflach, 1999: 364)

Coleosoma conurum (Thorell, 1895, T from Theridion) = Coleosoma blandum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (Saaristo, 1978: 117, sub Chrysso acrobeles)

Coleosoma delebile (Petrunkevitch, 1930, T from Theridion) = Coleosoma floridanum Banks, 1900 (Levi, 1959a: 6)

Coleosoma flavipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 = Coleosoma acutiventer Keyserling, 1884 (Levi, 1959a: 4)

Coleosoma floridanum (Banks, 1900, T from Argyrodes) = Coleosoma acutiventer Keyserling, 1884 (Levi, 1959a: 4)

Coleosoma index (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944, T from Achaea=Achaearanea) = Coleosoma acutiventer Keyserling, 1884 (Kaston, 1945b: 4, sub C. flavipes)

Coleosoma interruptum (Banks, 1908, T from Theridion) = Coleosoma floridanum Banks, 1900 (Bryant, 1940: 303)

Coleosoma nigripalpe (Banks, 1929, T from Theridion per Roewer) = Coleosoma acutiventer Keyserling, 1884 (Levi, 1957c: 60, sub C. flavipes)

Coleosoma oophorum (Petrunkevitch, 1930, T from Lithyphantes=Steatoda) = Coleosoma floridanum Banks, 1900 (Bryant, 1940: 303)

Coleosoma rapanae (Berland, 1942, T from Theridion) = Coleosoma floridanum Banks, 1900 (Levi, 1959a: 6)

Coleosoma saispotum Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 = Coleosoma floridanum Banks, 1900 (Knoflach, 1999: 364)

Coleosoma semicinctum (Banks, 1914) = Coleosoma floridanum Banks, 1900 (Levi, 1972b: 534)

Coleosoma vituperabile (Petrunkevitch, 1911, T from Theridion) = Coleosoma blandum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (Levi, 1959a: 3)

Coleosoma acutiventer (Keyserling, 1884) | | USA to Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007289

Achaea acutiventer Keyserling, 1884a: 113, pl. 5, f. 74 (Df) Original description

Coleosoma flavipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895a: 154, pl. 19, 12 (Dm)

Argyrodes floridana Banks, 1900a: 98 (Df)

Theridion flavipes Petrunkevitch, 1911: 195

Chrysso nigripalpis Banks, 1929: 85, pl. 3, f. 46, pl. 4, f. 72 (Df)

Achaea index Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 36, f. 87, 105 (Df)

Coleosoma flavipes Bryant, 1944: 52, f. 1, 4, 7, 9 (m, Df, T from Theridion)

Coleosoma flavipes Levi, 1957c: 60 (S)

Coleosoma acutiventer Levi, 1959a: 4, f. 6-11 (mf, T from Theridion per Roewer, S)

Coleosoma acutiventer Breene et al., 1993: 60, f. 30A-D (mf)

Coleosoma africanum Schmidt & Krause, 1995 | | Cape Verde Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007291

Coleosoma africanum Schmidt & Krause, 1995b: 363, f. 10 (Dm) Original description

Coleosoma blandum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 | | Seychelles, India, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines, China, Japan. Introduced to Seychelles, Hawaii urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007292

Coleosoma blandum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882c: 427, pl. 29, f. 3 (Dm; preoccupied in Theridion by Hentz, 1850, see Theridion blandum) Original description

Coleosoma blandum Keyserling, 1884a: 212, pl. 10, f. 127 (m)

Theridion blandum Simon, 1894a: 533, 536, f. 540-541 (m)

Theridion acrobeles Thorell, 1895b: 88 (Df)

Theridion conurum Thorell, 1895b: 90 (Df)

Coleosoma blandum Workman, 1896: 60, pl. 60 (m)

Theridion vituperabile Petrunkevitch, 1911: 210 (replacement name; because the replacement name was supplied before 1960, Levi's retention of C. blandum is contrary to the Code, but has been followed by enough subsequent workers to merit suppression of C. vituperabile)

Theridion blandum Lessert, 1933: 105, f. 20-21 (m)

Theridion vituperabile Roewer, 1942a: 460

Coleosoma blandum Levi, 1959a: 3, f. 18 (m, T from Theridion, S of Theridion vituperabile)

Coleosoma blandum Levi & Levi, 1962: 46, f. 107 (m)

Coleosoma blundum Ohno & Yaginuma, 1972: 62, f. 2.1-8 (mf, lapsus)

Coleosoma blandum Shinkai, 1977: 323, f. 4-7 (mf)

Chrysso acrobeles Saaristo, 1978: 117, f. 170-174 (f, T from Theridion, S of Theridion conurum)

Coleosoma blandum Roberts, 1978: 915, f. 27-30 (f, S of Chrysso acrobeles)

Coleosoma blandum Yaginuma, 1986a: 48, f. 26.3 (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Song, 1987: 120, f. 81 (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Chikuni, 1989b: 33, f. 17 (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Amalin & Barrion, 1990: 182, f. 2a-f (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Chen & Zhang, 1991: 136, f. 128.1-6 (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Okuma et al., 1993: 11, f. 10A-E (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Barrion & Litsinger, 1994: 305, f. 1572-1574 (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 427, f. 254a-b, 255a-d (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Zhu, 1998: 70, f. 40A-F (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 107, f. 52A-B, G (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Hu, 2001: 557, f. 375.1-4, 376.1-3 (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Yoshida, 2003a: 133, f. 356-358, 363-364, 587 (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Saaristo, 2006: 59, f. 19-25 (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Yoshida, 2009b: 376, f. 182-185 (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Saaristo, 2010: 251, f. 37.59-66 (mf)

Coleosoma blanda Yin et al., 2012: 310, f. 118a-e (mf)

Coleosoma blandum Prasad, Tyagi & Kumar, 2020: 96, f. 1-4 (m)

Coleosoma blandum Tharmarajan & Benjamin, 2021: 834, f. 1-6 (m)

Coleosoma blandum Sarkar et al., 2022: 1121, f. 1-6 (m)

Coleosoma blandum Noguchi et al., 2023: 144, f. 3A (f)

Coleosoma caliothripsum Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007293

Coleosoma caliothripsum Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 428, f. 256a-e (Df) Original description

Coleosoma floridanum Banks, 1900 | | North, Central and South America. Introduced to Europe, Macaronesia, West Africa, Seychelles, India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, China, Japan, Pacific Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007294

Coleosoma floridana Banks, 1900a: 98 (Dm) Original description

Theridion interruptum Banks, 1908: 205, f. 9 (Df)

Theridion floridanum Petrunkevitch, 1911: 195

Bathyphantes semicincta Banks, 1914c: 640 (D)

Lithyphantes oophorus Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 170, f. 8-9 (Df)

Theridion delebile Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 206, f. 53-56 (Df)

Theridion interruptum Banks, 1930b: 275, pl. 2, f. 1-2 (f, Dm)

Coleosoma floridana Bryant, 1940: 303, f. 70-71 (Tm from Theridion, Sf)

Theridion rapanae Berland, 1942: 15, f. 6a-f (Dmf)

Coleosoma floridanum Bryant, 1944: 54, f. 3, 6 (mf)

Theridium albovittatum Caporiacco, 1955: 334, f. 25a-c (Df)

Theridion aleipata Marples, 1955a: 483, pl. 58, f. 9, 13, 19 (Dmf)

Coleosoma floridanum Levi, 1959a: 6, f. 12-17 (mf, S)

Coleosoma floridanum Levi & Levi, 1962: 46, f. 103-104 (m)

Coleosoma floridanum Levi, 1967c: 181, f. 32-36 (mf)

Coleosoma semicincta Ivie, 1969: 7 (Tf from Bathyphantes)

Coleosoma floridanum Spoczynska, 1969: 1, f. 1A-D (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Levi, 1972b: 534 (S)

Coleosoma floridana Saaristo, 1978: 117, f. 175-182 (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Tanikawa, 1991b: 4, f. 6-15 (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Zhu & Zhang, 1992: 23, f. 4A-E (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Schmidt, Geisthardt & Piepho, 1994: 95, 126, f. 8 (m)

Coleosoma saispotum Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 432, f. 258a-l (Dm)

Theridion antheae Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 447, f. 268a-d (Df)

Coleosoma floridanum Zhu, 1998: 71, f. 41A-E (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Knoflach, 1999: 364, f. 71-82 (mf, S)

Coleosoma floridanum Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 107, f. 52C-D, H (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Yoshida, 2003a: 135, f. 359-360, 365-366 (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Agnarsson, 2004: 556, f. 41A-G, 91H-I (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Saaristo, 2006: 60, f. 26-33 (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Agnarsson, Coddington & Knoflach, 2007: 368, f. 116 (m)

Coleosoma floridanum Emerit & Ledoux, 2008: 53, f. 13, 14A-B, 15 (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Paquin, Dupérré & Labelle, 2008: 221, f. 2A-G (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Wunderlich, 2008b: 387, f. 501-505 (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Yoshida, 2009b: 376, f. 186-189 (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Saaristo, 2010: 254, f. 37.67-74 (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Šestáková, Christophoryová & Korenko, 2013: 40, f. 2a-c, 3a-b, 4a-c, 5a-b (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Srinivasulu et al., 2013: 4489, f. 2, images 5-6 (m)

Coleosoma floridanum Pfliegler, 2014: 146, f. 1b, 2a, 3a (f)

Coleosoma floridanum Lecigne, 2016d: 13, f. 2B-D (mf)

Coleosoma floridanum Vanuytven, 2021: 17, 104, f. A.1a, B.66a-c, B.67b-c, B.68 (m)

Coleosoma floridanum Tharmarajan & Benjamin, 2021: 835, f. 7-11 (m)

Coleosoma matinikum Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007295

Coleosoma matinikum Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 435, f. 260a-k (Dm) Original description

Coleosoma normale Bryant, 1944 | | USA to Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007296

Coleosoma normale Bryant, 1944: 56, f. 2, 5, 8, 10 (Dmf) Original description

Coleosoma normale Levi, 1959a: 3, f. 1-5 (mf)

Coleosoma normale Levi & Randolph, 1975: 37, f. 67 (m)

Coleosoma normale Roth, 1982: 47-11, f. 67 (m)

Coleosoma normale Roth, 1985: B43-10, f. 67 (m)

Coleosoma normale Roth, 1994: 184, f. 67 (m)

Coleosoma octomaculatum (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) | | Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan. Introduced to New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007297

Theridion octomaculatum Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 138, pl. 3, f. 14, pl. 12, f. 281 (Dmf) Original description

Theridion octomaculatum Lee, 1966: 29, f. 6n-o (f)

Theridion octomaculatum Paik & Namkung, 1979: 29, f. 11 (f)

Theridion octomaculatum Song, 1980: 134, f. 71a-f (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Yoshida, 1982d: 38, f. 1-4 (Tmf from Theridion)

Theridion octomaculatum Hu, 1984: 170, f. 178.1-5 (mf)

Theridion octomaculatum Guo, 1985: 97, f. 2-41.1-3 (mf)

Theridion octomaculatum Zhu & Shi, 1985: 103, f. 89a-d (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Yaginuma, 1986a: 48, f. 26.4 (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Zhang, 1987: 106, f. 86.1-4 (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Chikuni, 1989b: 33, f. 18 (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Feng, 1990: 120, f. 95.1-5 (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Chen & Gao, 1990: 93, f. 117a-b (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Chen & Zhang, 1991: 137, f. 129.1-6 (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Zhao, 1993: 205, f. 95a-d (mf)

Theridion octomaculatum Barrion & Litsinger, 1994: 304, f. 1564-1567 (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 427, f. 253a-e (f)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Zhao, 1995: 923, f. 434a-d (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Zhu, 1998: 72, f. 42A-D (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 110, f. 52E-F, I (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Hu, 2001: 559, f. 376.4 (m)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 99, f. 47A-D (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Namkung, 2002: 117, f. 13.35a-b (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Namkung, 2003: 119, f. 13.35a-b (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Yoshida, 2003a: 135, f. 361-362, 367-369, 588 (mf)

Chrysso octomaculata Yoshida, 2009b: 376, f. 198-200 (Tmf from Coleosoma)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 89, f. 50A-D (mf)

Chrysso octomaculata Ono, 2011b: 454, f. 62-67 (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculata Yin et al., 2012: 312, f. 119a-f (mf)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Sirvid & Fitzgerald, 2016: 56, f. 1A-B, 2A-B, 3-5 (Tmf from Chrysso)

Chrysso octomaculata Jin, 2018: 18, f. 4-7.A-D, pl. 4 (m)

Coleosoma octomaculatum Kim, 2021: 42, f. 14A-H, pl. 8 (mf)

Coleosoma pabilogum Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007298

Coleosoma pabilogum Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 432, f. 259a-f (Dm) Original description

Coleosoma pseudoblandum Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007299

Coleosoma pseudoblandum Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 431, f. 257a-e (Df) Original description