Paidiscura pallens (Blackwall, 1834)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007863

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Described:

Distribution: Europe, Algeria, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Theridion minimum Wider, 1834, 1 f (3041-115) -
Taxonomic References
Theridion minimum Wider, 1834: 249, pl. 17, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064293]
Theridion pallens Blackwall, 1834b: 357 (Df) Original description
Epeira nubila Blackwall, 1837: 101 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064294]
Dictyna hystrica C. L. Koch, 1837b: 12 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064295]
Theridion minimum Walckenaer, 1841: 320 (D)
Theridion albens Blackwall, 1841a: 627 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064296]
Micryphantes hystricus C. L. Koch, 1845: 155, f. 1074 (Df)
Epeira nubila Blackwall, 1864a: 194, pl. 14, f. 125 (m, Df)
Theridion albens Blackwall, 1864a: 199, pl. 14, f. 130 (f)
Theridion pallens Thorell, 1873: 438 (S of Epeira nubila, Theridion albens and T. minimum)
Theridion persubtile L. Koch, 1877b: 182, f. 5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064297]
Theridion pallens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879d: 92, pl. 2, f. 8 (mf)
Theridion pallens Simon, 1881a: 107 (S of Micryphantes hystricus and Theridion persubtile)
Theridion pallens Smith, 1900b: 207, f. 1c (m)
Theridion pallens Bösenberg, 1902: 107, pl. 9, f. 133 (mf)
Theridion pallens Wiehle, 1937: 178, f. 160-168 (mf)
Paidiscura pallens Archer, 1950: 27, pl. 4, f. 6 (m, T from Theridion)
Theridion pallens Locket & Millidge, 1953: 81, f. 53A-B (mf)
Theridion pallens Miller, 1971: 192, pl. XXXIV, f. 16-17 (mf)
Theridion pallens Palmgren, 1974b: 28, f. 7.1-3 (mf)
Theridion pallens Roberts, 1985: 188, f. 84d (mf)
Paidiscura pallens Wunderlich, 1987a: 215
Theridion pallens Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 300, f. 805 (mf)
Theridion pallens Roberts, 1995: 288, f. (mf)
Theridion pallens Roberts, 1998: 303, f. (mf)
Paidiscura pallens Knoflach & Thaler, 2000: 425, f. 25-28, 31, 34, 37-38, 59-60 (mf)
Paidiscura pallens Trotta, 2005: 175, f. 459-460 (mf)
Paidiscura pallens Almquist, 2006: 77, f. 100a-h (mf)
Paidiscura pallens Wunderlich, 2008b: 392, f. 547-550 (m)
Paidiscura pallens Marusik & Kunt, 2010a: 2, f. 6, 9 (m)
Theridion pallens Le Peru, 2011: 482, f. 839 (mf)
Paidiscura pallens Vanuytven, 2021: 46, 216, f. A.36c, B.218a-b, B.219 (m)
Paidiscura pallens Zamani et al., 2025c: 135, f. 5C-D (f)
References

Almquist, S. (2006). Swedish Araneae, part 1 – families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 62(2005): 1-284. [[publ. in 2006 per Jonsson, in litt.]] -- Show included taxa

Archer, A. F. (1950). A study of theridiid and mimetid spiders with descriptions of new genera and species. Museum Paper, Alabama Museum of Natural History 30: 1-40. -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1834b). Characters of some undescribed genera and species of Araneidae. In: Blackwall, J. (ed.) Researches in zoology, illustrative of the manners and economy of animals; with descriptions of numerous species new to naturalists; accompanied by plates. Simpkin and Marshall, London, pp. 304-426, pl. 2-3. [[pdf includes also pp. 229-303]] -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1837). Characters of a new genus and some undescribed species of Araneidae. London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science (3) 10(59): 100-105. doi: 10.1080/14786443208647870 -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1841a). The difference in the number of eyes with which spiders are provided proposed as the basis of their distribution into tribes; with descriptions of newly discovered species and the characters of a new family and three new genera of spiders. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 18(4): 601-670. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1838.tb00210.x -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1864a). A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Part II. Ray Society, London, pp. 175-384, pl. 13-29. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.143674 -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1902). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(2-4): 97-384, pl. 9-36. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.6508 -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa

Knoflach, B. & Thaler, K. (2000). Notes on Mediterranean Theridiidae (Araneae) - I. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 78: 411-442. -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1837b). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Heft 1. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, 39 pp., pl. 1-6. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.39561 [[for the detailled publishing date see Nagel & Grieder, 2019: 47]] -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1845). Die Arachniden. Zwölfter Band. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, pp. 1-166, pl. 397-432 (f. 960-1077). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1877b). Verzeichniss der bei Nürnberg bis jetzt beobachteten Arachniden (mit Ausschluss der Ixodiden und Acariden) und Beschreibungen von neuen, hier vorkommenden Arten. Abhandlungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Nürnberg 6: 113-198. -- Show included taxa

Le Peru, B. (2011). The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522. -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1953). British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp. -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Kunt, K. B. (2010a). Spiders (Araneae) new to the fauna of Turkey. 1. Genera of Theridiidae. Turkish Journal of Arachnology 3(1): 1-8. -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. -- Show included taxa

Palmgren, P. (1974b). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. V. Theridiidae und Nesticidae. Fauna Fennica 26: 1-54. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1879d). The spiders of Dorset. Araneidea. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 1: 1-235. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1985). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books Colchester, England, 229 pp. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins London, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1881a). Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, première partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-180, pl. 25. -- Show included taxa

Smith, F. P. (1900b). An introduction to British spiders [continued]. Science-Gossip New Series 7(73, 74, 77, 78, 79): 14-16, 45-47, 138-140, 166-167, 206-207. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1873). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part IV. C. J. Lundström, Uppsala, pp. 375-645. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.69282 -- Show included taxa

Trotta, A. (2005). Introduzione al ragni italiani (Arachnida Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 83: 3-178. doi: 10.4081/memorieSEI.2004.3 -- Show included taxa

Vanuytven, H. (2021). The Theridiidae of the World. A key to the genera with their diagnosis and a study of the body length of all known species. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society 35(Supplement): 1-363. -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.61095 [[not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837]] -- Show included taxa

Wider, F. (1834). Arachniden. In: Reuss, A. (ed.) Zoologische Miscellen. Museum Senckenbergianum, Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der beschreibenden Naturgeschichte 1: 195-276. -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1937). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. 26. Familie. Theridiidae oder Haubennetzspinnen (Kugelspinnen). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 119-222. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1987a). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops Langen, 435 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2008b). On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 140-469, 792-794, 796-800, 803, 819-859. -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A., Nuruyeva, T., Snegovaya, N., Freyhof, J., Mustafayev, N. & Marusik, Y. M. (2025c). New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20(1): 132-137. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-03-13 New taxonomic reference entry Zamani et al., 2025c
2025-03-13 Species distribution update Zamani et al., 2025c Old value
2021-02-15 New taxonomic reference entry Vanuytven, 2021
2020-11-24 New taxonomic reference entry Smith, 1900b
2017-11-01 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik & Kunt, 2010a

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