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. Nesticodes Archer, 1950 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00708

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Theridion Walckenaer, 1805 by Wunderlich, 1987a: 214, contra Levi, 1957a: 19.

In synonymy:

Nesticodes nelsoni (Bryant, 1945, T from Anelosimus) = Nesticodes rufipes Lucas, 1846 (Levi, 1956b: 413, sub Theridion)

Nesticodes pilosus (Denis, 1956, T from Robertus) = Nesticodes rufipes Lucas, 1846 (Levi, 1957a: 56, sub Theridion)

Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846) | | Central and South America. Introduced to Europe, Macaronesia, North Africa, Middle East, China, Japan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, New Zealand, Pacific Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007859

Theridion rufipes Lucas, 1846: 263, pl. 16, f. 5 (Df) Original description

Theridion luteolum Blackwall, 1859b: 259 (Dj)

Theridion borbonicum Vinson, 1863: 318, pl. 14, f. 6 (Df)

Theridion luteipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869b: 382, pl. 12, f. 46-51 (Dmf)

Theridion albonotatum Taczanowski, 1874: 56 (Dmf)

Theridion bajulans L. Koch, 1875b: 21, pl. 2, f. 4-5 (Dmf)

Theridion flavo-aurantiacum Simon, 1880i: 171 (Df)

Theridion longipes van Hasselt, 1882: 33 (Dm)

Theridion albonotatum Keyserling, 1884a: 15, pl. 1, f. 4 (mf)

Theridion rufipes Simon, 1898b: 271

Theridion rufipes Kulczyński, 1899: 374, pl. 6, f. 33 (Dm)

Theridion rufipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 384, pl. 36, f. 15-16 (mf)

Anelosimus nelsoni Bryant, 1945c: 200, f. 8 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048876]

Nesticodes rufipes Archer, 1950: 22, pl. II, f. 7-8 (Tmf from Theridion)

Robertus pilosus Denis, 1956a: 203, f. 15-16 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054078]

Theridion rufipes Levi, 1956b: 413 (S of Anelosimus nelsoni)

Theridion rufipes Levi, 1957a: 56, f. 188-193 (mf, S of Robertus pilosus)

Theridion rufipes Levi & Levi, 1962: 45, f. 95 (m)

Theridion rufipes Chrysanthus, 1963: 748, f. 106-109 (mf)

Theridion rufipes Levi, 1967c: 179, f. 24-27 (mf)

Theridion rufipes Roberts, 1978: 913, f. 20-26 (mf)

Theridion rufipes Levy & Amitai, 1982a: 86, f. 1-5 (mf)

Nesticodes rufipes Wunderlich, 1987a: 215, f. 570 (mf)

Theridion rufipes González & Estévez, 1988: 500, f. 1-3 (f)

Theridion rufipes Tanikawa, 1991b: 2, f. 1-5 (mf)

Nesticodes rufipes Zhu, 1998: 117, f. 71A-E (mf)

Theridion rufipes Levy, 1998b: 171, f. 322-326 (mf)

Nesticodes rufipes Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 127, f. 65N-Q (mf)

Nesticodes rufipes Yoshida, 2001c: 167, f. 36-39 (mf)

Nesticodes rufipes Yoshida, 2003a: 82, f. 196-199 (mf)

Nesticodes rufipes Agnarsson, 2004: 573, f. 58A-F, 59A-F (mf)

Nesticodes rufipes Saaristo, 2006: 67, f. 51-54 (mf)

Nesticodes rufipes Wunderlich, 2008b: 391, f. 534-438 (mf)

Nesticodes rufipes Yoshida, 2009b: 374, f. 163-164 (mf)

Nesticodes rufipes Saaristo, 2010: 259, f. 37.90-94 (mf)

Nesticodes rufipes Gabriel, 2010a: 40, f. 1A-C, 2-4 (f)

Nesticodes rufipes Talukdar & Sanyal, 2013: 42, unnumbered f. (mf)

Nesticodes rufipes Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2017: 478, f. 1A-F (f)

Nesticodes rufipes Vanuytven, 2021: 46, 204, f. A.36f, B.203-204 (m)