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Genus: Steatoda Sundevall, 1833 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Steatoda maura (Simon, 1909)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008078

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Described:

Distribution: Morocco, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Iran

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (3491) - (Levy & Amitai, 1982b)
Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) mf (29313–15) of Lithyphantes gerhardti - (Wiehle, 1934)

Taxonomic References

Lithyphantes maurus Simon, 1909b: 23 (Df) Original description

Lithyphantes gerhardti Wiehle, 1934: 71, f. 3, 6-8 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059828]

Steatoda maura Levy & Amitai, 1982b: 21, f. 33-41 (mf, S of Steatoda gerhardti)

Steatoda maura Levy, 1998b: 67, f. 123-130 (mf)

Steatoda maura Le Peru, 2011: 466, f. 786 (mf)

Steatoda maura Van Keer, Bosselaers & Oger, 2024: 19, f. 23A-G, 24A-F (mf)

Steatoda maura Karakuş et al., 2025: 444, f. 1A-E (m)

References

Karakuş, A., Oldorff, E., Coşar, V. & Kunt, K. B. (2025). About the presence of Steatoda maura (Simon, 1909) in Türkiye (Araneae: Theridiidae). Serket 20(4): 443-447. -- 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

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

Simon, E. (1909b). Etude sur les arachnides recueillis au Maroc par M. Martinez de la Escalera en 1907. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (6) 1: 5-43. -- 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

Wiehle, H. (1934). Zur Morphologie und Biologie einer paläarktischen Lithyphantes-Art (L. gerhardti sp. nov.). Zoologischer Anzeiger 106: 71-84. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-05-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Karakuş et al., 2025
2024-07-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Van Keer, Bosselaers & Oger, 2024