Steatoda erigoniformis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008048

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Described:

Distribution: East Mediterranean, Middle East, Caucasus, India, China, Korea, Japan. Introduced to USA, Caribbean, Venezuela, Cabo Verde, South Africa


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK m (B. 587, t. 5) of Steatoda signata - (Levy & Amitai, 1982b)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f of Euryopis albomaculata - (Bosmans & Hervé, 2021)
  • Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK 1m 1f (B. 588, t. 17) - (Levy & Amitai, 1982b)
Taxonomic References
Theridion erigoniforme O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 284 (Dmf) Original description
Steatoda signata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876b: 568 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059845]
Crustulina signata Simon, 1881a: 161
Lithyphantes septemmaculatus Keyserling, 1884a: 141, pl. 6, f. 88 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059843]
Lithyphantes septemmaculatus Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 155, pl. 12, f. 277 (f)
Lithyphantes septemmaculatus Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 169, f. 6-7 (f)
Asagenella erigoniformis Schenkel, 1937: 381, f. 3 (m)
Lithyphantes septemmaculatus Bryant, 1945c: 204, f. 7, 9 (Dm)
Euryopis albomaculata Denis, 1952h: 313, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007686]
Steatoda septemmaculata Levi, 1957b: 402, f. 70-73 (mf)
Asagenella erigoniformis Levi & Levi, 1962: 60, f. 261-262 (mf)
Steatoda erigoniformis Levi, 1962a: 25 (S of Steatoda septemmaculata)
Lithyphantes septemmaculatus Lee, 1966: 27, f. 5o-p (f)
Steatoda erigoniformis Levi, 1967c: 184, f. 46-49 (mf)
Steatoda septemmaculata Gruia, 1973a: 311, f. 18-21 (m)
Steatoda erigoniformis Levy & Amitai, 1982b: 26, f. 63-71 (mf, S of Steatoda signata)
Steatoda septemmaculatus Hu, 1984: 165, f. 171.1-2 (f)
Steatoda erigoniformis Yaginuma, 1986a: 39, f. 21.8 (mf)
Steatoda erigoniformis Chikuni, 1989b: 40, f. 49 (m)
Steatoda septemmaculatus Chen & Zhang, 1991: 142, f. 135 (f)
Steatoda erigoniformis Zhu, 1998: 332, f. 222A-E (mf)
Steatoda erigoniformis Levy, 1998b: 81, f. 152-160 (mf)
Steatoda erigoniformis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 128, f. 68E-F, K-L (mf)
Steatoda erigoniformis Yoshida, 2001b: 45, f. 49-52 (mf)
Steatoda erigoniformis Namkung, 2002: 127, f. 13.45a-b (mf)
Steatoda erigoniformis Namkung, 2003: 129, f. 13.45a-b (mf)
Steatoda erigoniformis Yoshida, 2003a: 43, f. 81-84, 554 (mf)
Steatoda erigoniformis Heinrichs & Barrion, 2004: 204, f. 555-557 (f)
Steatoda erigoniformis Yoshida, 2009b: 363, f. 61-63 (mf)
Steatoda erigoniformis Le Peru, 2011: 464, f. 780 (mf)
Steatoda erigoniformis Yin et al., 2012: 385, f. 164a-c (f)
Steatoda erigoniformis Bosmans & Hervé, 2021: 63, f. 5a-f (f, S of Euryopis albomaculata)
Steatoda erigoniformis Kim, 2021: 137, f. 59A-G (m)
Steatoda erigoniformis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021A: 17, 7 f. (mf)
Steatoda erigoniformis Coşar & Danışman, 2022b: 11, f. 2A-D, 3A-E, 4 (m)
Steatoda erigoniformis Tripathi et al., 2023d: 26, pl. 15, f. 1A-H, pl. 16, f. 2A-E (mf)
Steatoda erigoniformis Van Keer, Bosselaers & Oger, 2024: 24, f. 38A-H (mf)
References

Bösenberg, W. & Strand, E. (1906). Japanische Spinnen. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 30: 93-422. -- Show included taxa

Bosmans, R. & Hervé, C. (2021). Less is more: eight new synonyms in Mediterranean spiders (Araneae), with a new Pelecopsis species from Tunisia (Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 61: 58-64. doi: 10.30963/aramit6109 -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1945c). Notes on some Florida spiders. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 36: 199-213. -- Show included taxa

Chen, Z. F. & Zhang, Z. H. (1991). Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida. Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House, Hangzhou, 356 pp. -- Show included taxa

Chikuni, Y. (1989b). Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan. Kaisei-sha Publishing Co. Tokyo, 310 pp. -- Show included taxa

Coşar, İ. & Danışman, T. (2022b). First record of the cobweb spider Steatoda erigoniformis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) in Turkey (Araneae, Theridiidae). Acta Zoologica Cypria 1(1): 10-14. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1952h). Quelques araignées de Basse-Égypte recueillies par M. B. Condé. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 76(5-6, 1951): 313-315. [[year corrected per Frétey, 2023: 80]] -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021A). The Theridiidae of South Africa. Part 2 [R-T]. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 49 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7515998 -- Show included taxa

Gruia, M. (1973a). Sur quelques Theridiidae (Aranea) recueillis par les expéditions biospéologiques à Cuba. Résultats des Expéditions Biospéologiques Cubano-Roumaines à Cuba 1: 305-313. -- Show included taxa

Heinrichs, E. A. & Barrion, A. T. (2004). Rice-feeding insects and selected natural enemies in West Africa: biology, ecology, identification. International Rice Research Institute, Manila & Africa Rice Center, Abidjan, 242 pp. [[spiders: pp. 192-222]] -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. (1984). The Chinese spiders collected from the fields and the forests. Tianjin Science and Technology Press, 482 pp. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1884a). Die Spinnen Amerikas II. Theridiidae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 1, 1-222. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Kim, S. T. (2021). Spiders V. Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae, Amaurobiidae, Eresidae, Zoropsidae, Anyphaenidae. Invertebrate Fauna of Korea 21(47): 1-230. [[first pdf is reduced in size]] -- 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

Lee, C. L. (1966). [Spiders of Formosa (Taiwan)]. Taichung Junior Teachers College Publisher, 84 pp. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1957b). The spider genera Crustulina and Steatoda in North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 117: 367-424. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1962a). The spider genera Steatoda and Enoplognatha in America (Araneae, Theridiidae). Psyche, Cambridge 69(1): 11-36. doi: 10.1155/1962/42957 -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. & Levi, L. R. (1962). The genera of the spider family Theridiidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 127(1): 1-71, pl. 1-14. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1967c). Cosmopolitan and pantropical species of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae). Pacific Insects 9: 175-186. -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. & Amitai, P. (1982b). The cobweb spider genus Steatoda (Araneae, Theridiidae) of Israel and Sinai. Zoologica Scripta 11(1): 13-30. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1982.tb00515.x -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1998b). Araneae: Theridiidae. In: Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida III. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Jerusalem, 228 pp. -- Show included taxa

Namkung, J. (2002). The spiders of Korea. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co. Seoul, 648 pp. [[2001 in the book, but publ. in 2002 per Platnick]] -- Show included taxa

Namkung, J. (2003). The Spiders of Korea, 2nd. ed. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co. Seoul, 648 pp. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1930a). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 159-356. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00489.x -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1876b). Catalogue of a collection of spiders made in Egypt, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 44(3): 541-630, pl. 58-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1876.tb02595.x -- Show included taxa

Schenkel, E. (1937). Beschreibungen einiger afrikanischer Spinnen und Fundortsangaben. Festschrift Embrik Strand 3: 373-398. -- Show included taxa

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

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Tripathi, R., Jangid, A. K., Bhagirathan, U. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023d). First record of the cobweb spider (Steatoda erigoniformis) from India. Taprobanica 12(1): 26-27, pl. 15-17. doi: 10.47605/tapro.v12i1.299 -- Show included taxa

Van Keer, J., Bosselaers, J. & Oger, P. (2024). Description of four new Steatoda species (Araneae: Theridiidae) from the Mediterranean region with notes on some related species. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 39(2, supplement): 1-77. -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1986a). Spiders of Japan in color (new ed.). Hoikusha Publishing Co. Osaka, 305 pp., 64 pls. -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press Changsha, 1590 pp. -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (2001b). The spider genera Robertus, Enoplognatha, Steatoda and Crustulina (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 50(1): 31-48. doi: doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.50.31 -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (2003a). The spider family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Japan. Arachnological Society of Japan, 224 pp. -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (2009b). Uloboridae, Theridiidae, Ctenidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 142-147, 356-393, 467-468. -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S. (1998). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing, 436 pp. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2024-07-23 New taxonomic reference entry Van Keer, Bosselaers & Oger, 2024
2024-04-01 Species distribution update Old value
2023-05-11 New taxonomic reference entry Tripathi et al., 2023d
2023-05-11 Species distribution update Tripathi et al., 2023d Old value
2023-02-10 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021A
2023-02-10 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021A Old value
2022-07-19 New taxonomic reference entry Kim, 2021
2022-06-29 New taxonomic reference entry Coşar & Danışman, 2022b
2021-04-26 New taxonomic reference entry Bosmans & Hervé, 2021
2021-04-26 Species synonymy Bosmans & Hervé, 2021 Steatoda albomaculata synonymized with Steatoda erigoniformis
2021-01-03 New taxonomic reference entry Heinrichs & Barrion, 2004

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