Theridion wiehlei Schenkel, 1938

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008785

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Described:

Distribution: Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan


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Taxonomic References
Theridion petraeum Wiehle, 1937: 172, f. 143-145 (mf; misidentified per Schenkel, 1938b: 5; m is probably Theridion cinereum per Breitling, 2020: 359
Theridion wiehlei Schenkel, 1938b: 5, f. 1a-b (Dmf) Original description
Theridion wiehlei Denis, 1945a: 113, f. 7, 11, 14 (mf; m f. 11, 14 is presumably Theridion cinereum per Breitling, 2020: 359)
Theridion wiehlei Deltshev, 1992a: 20, f. 5 (f)
Theridion wiehlei Le Peru, 2011: 486, f. 855 (mf)
Theridion wiehlei Breitling, 2020: 359, f. 36C-D (f)
Theridion wiehlei Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025: 149, f. 96I (f)
References

Breitling, R. (2020). South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18(4): 333-362. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.333 -- Show included taxa

Deltshev, C. D. (1992a). A critical review of family Theridiidae (Araneae) in Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 43: 13-21. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1945a). Sur quelques Theridion appartenant à la faune de France. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 49(9, 1944): 111-117. doi: 10.3406/bsef.1944.15782 [N.B.: year corrected from 1944 to 1945 by Canard & Cruveillier, 2016: 43] -- 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

Lecigne, S., Moutaouakil, S. & Lips, J. (2025). Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184. -- Show included taxa

Schenkel, E. (1938b). Spinnentiere von der Iberischen Halbinsel, gesammelt von Prof. Dr. O. Lundblad, 1935. Arkiv för Zoologi 30(A24): 1-29. -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1937). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. 26. Familie. Theridiidae oder Haubennetzspinnen (Kugelspinnen). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 119-222. -- 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
2025-04-08 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025
2025-04-08 Species distribution update Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025 Old value
2020-10-05 Species distribution update Danflous et al., 2020 Old value
2020-03-24 New taxonomic reference entry Breitling, 2020
2014-10-21 Species distribution update Old value

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