Taxon details


Steatoda nobilis (Thorell, 1875)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-11-04
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008093]
  • Distribution: Macaronesia. Introduced to USA, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, St. Helena, Europe, Turkey, Iran
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Lithyphantes nobilis Thorell, 1875c: 60 (Dmf).
Steatoda clarkii O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879e: 193 (Dj).
Lithyphantes nobilis Kulczyński, 1899: 376, pl. 7, f. 54, 59-60 (mf).
Teutana nobilis Jackson, 1907a: 3, pl. 1, f. 5-9.
Teutana nobilis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1908b: 823, pl. 50, f. 25-28 (f).
Teutana nobilis Schmidt, 1956g: 244, f. 7c (f).
Steatoda nobilis Roberts, 1993: 14, f. 6a (mf).
Steatoda nobilis Snazell & Jones, 1993: 164, f. 1-5 (mf).
Steatoda nobilis Roberts, 1995: 276, f. (mf).
Steatoda nobilis Roberts, 1998: 290, f. (mf).
Steatoda nobilis Crespo et al., 2009b: 347, f. 7 (f).
Steatoda nobilis Le Peru, 2011: 466, f. 788 (mf).
Steatoda nobilis Vetter & Rust, 2012: 92, f. 1-3, 4a-c, 5a-b (mf).
Steatoda nobilis Kulczycki et al., 2012: 269, f. 1-3 (mf).
Steatoda nobilis Wunderlich, 2012a: 65, f. 5-8 (f).
Steatoda nobilis Taucare-Ríos, Mardones & Zúñiga-Reinoso, 2016: 479, f. 1B-G (mf).
Steatoda nobilis Faúndez et al., 2018: 52, f. A1-D, 2A-B, 3A-C (mf).
Steatoda nobilis Bauer et al., 2019: 31, f. 5A-B (m, f habitus).
Steatoda nobilis Matysiak, 2020: 65, ph. 1-2, cr. 1-2 (mf).
Steatoda nobilis Van Keer, Bosselaers & Oger, 2024: 19, f. 1B, 2B, E, 25A-G, 26A-F (mf).
References

Bauer, T., Feldmeier, S., Krehenwinkel, H., Wieczorrek, C., Reiser, N. & Breitling, R. (2019). Steatoda nobilis, a false widow on the rise: a synthesis of past and current distribution trends. NeoBiota 42: 19-43. doi:10.3897/neobiota.42.31582 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Crespo, L., Cardoso, P., Silva, I. & Menezes, D. (2009b). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Selvagens Islands (Portugal): additions to the current knowledge. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 45: 343-348. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Faúndez, E. I., Carvajal, M. A., Darquea-Schettini, D. & González-Cano, E. (2018). Nuevos registros de Steatoda nobilis (Thorell, 1875) (Araneae: Theridiidae) de Sudamérica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 33: 52-54. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jackson, A. R. (1907a). On some rare arachnids captured during 1906. Annual Report and Proceedings of the Chester Society of Natural Science, Literature and Art 6(1): 1-8. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kulczycki, A., Legittimo, C. M., Simeon, E. & Di Pompeo, P. (2012). New records of Steatoda nobilis (Thorell, 1875) (Araneae, Theridiidae), an introduced species on the Italian mainland and in Sardinia. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15(8): 269-272. doi:10.13156/arac.2012.15.1.269 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1899). Arachnoidea opera Rev. E. Schmitz collecta in insulis Maderianis et in insulis Selvages dictis. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 36: 319-461. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Matysiak, J.-P. (2020). La Noble Fausse Veuve Steatoda nobilis (Thorell, 1875) - Araneae, Theridiidae, dans le Nord de la France. Le Héron 51(2, 2018): 63-66. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1879e). On some new and rare British spiders, with characters of a new genus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 4(21): 190-215, pl. 12. doi:10.1080/00222937908679818 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1908b). On some new and little known Araneidea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 77(4, 1907): 817-829, pl. 50. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1907.tb06960.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1993). Appendix to The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Harley Books, Colchester, England, 16 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

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

Schmidt, G. (1956g). Die Spinnenfauna der Kanarischen Bananen. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Zoologie 43: 237-249. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Snazell, R. & Jones, D. (1993). The theridiid spider Steatoda nobilis (Thorell, 1875) in Britain. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9: 164-167. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Taucare-Ríos, A., Mardones, D. & Zúñiga-Reinoso, Á. (2016). Steatoda nobilis (Araneae: Theridiidae) in South America: a new alien species for Chile. The Canadian Entomologist 148: 479-481. doi:10.4039/tce.2015.83 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875c). Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 13(5): 1-204. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Vetter, R. S. & Rust, M. K. (2012). A large, European combfoot spider, Steatoda nobilis (Thorell 1875) (Araneae: Theridiidae), newly established in Ventura County, California. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 88: 91-97. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2012a). Fifteen papers on extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 7: 1-246. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-11-04 Species distribution update Sherwood et al., 2024e n/a (Old value)
2024-07-23 New taxonomic reference entry Van Keer, Bosselaers & Oger, 2024 n/a
2020-03-19 New taxonomic reference entry Matysiak, 2020 n/a
2019-02-13 New taxonomic reference entry Bauer et al., 2019 n/a
2019-01-04 New taxonomic reference entry Faúndez et al., 2018 n/a
2019-01-04 Species distribution update Faúndez et al., 2018 n/a (Old value)
2017-07-01 New taxonomic reference entry Crespo et al., 2009b n/a
2016-09-24 New taxonomic reference entry Taucare-Ríos, Mardones & Zúñiga-Reinoso, 2016 n/a
2016-09-24 Species distribution update Taucare-Ríos, Mardones & Zúñiga-Reinoso, 2016 n/a (Old value)
2016-01-07 Species distribution update Zamani et al., 2015 n/a (Old value)