Taxon details


Theridula opulenta (Walckenaer, 1841)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-11-05
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008814]
  • Distribution: North America. Introduced to southern Europe, India
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Theridion opulenta Walckenaer, 1841: 322 (Df).
Theridion sphaerula Hentz, 1850: 279, pl. 9, f. 22 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062857].
Chrysso cordiformis Butler, 1883: 763, pl. 57, f. 2 (Df; Levi, 1954c: 341 discusses the probable validity, but without revaldating it) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062858].
Theridium ventillans Keyserling, 1884a: 84, pl. 4, f. 53 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062860].
Theridula quadripunctata Keyserling, 1886b: 32, pl. 11, f. 151 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062861].
Theridula cordiformis Simon, 1889b: 229 (T from Chrysso).
Theridula sphaerula Banks, 1893a: 125 (S of Theridion ventillans).
Theridula opulenta Simon, 1894a: 543, 545, 551, f. 561 (m, S of Theridula gonygaster [revalidated by Levi, 1954c: 340], Theridula nivipicta [rejected by Levi, 1954c: 340, see Theridula gonygaster] and T. sphaerula).
Theridula opulenta Simon, 1898i: 862 (S of Theridula tricornis; rejected by Levi, 1954c: 340, see Theridula gonygaster).
Theridula opulenta F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 393, pl. 37, f. 11-11d (f, S of Theridula cordiformis, T. nivipictaT. quinqueguttata and T. triangularis [S of the latter three rejected by Levi, 1954c: 340, see Theridula gonygaster]).
Theridula opulenta Simon, 1907d: 260.
Theridula opulenta Petrunkevitch, 1911: 211 (S of Theridula quadripunctata).
Theridula ventillans Archer, 1946: 52 (removed from S of Theridula opulenta; S confirmed by Levi, 1954c: 334).
Theridula sphaerula Archer, 1946: 52 (removed from S of Theridula opulenta; S confirmed by Levi, 1954c: 334).
Theridula opulenta Levi, 1954c: 334, f. 9-13 (mf, S of Theridula sphaerula and T. ventillans confirmed [for T. sphaerula see also Theridula emertoni]).
Theridula opulenta Kaston, 1977: 12, f. 3-4 (mf).
Theridula opulenta Heimer, 1982: 43, f. 10 (m).
Theridula opulenta Hu, 1984: 174, f. 183.1-2 (m).
Theridula opulenta Agnarsson, 2004: 596, f. 81A-G, 82A-F (mf).
Theridula opulenta Agnarsson, Coddington & Knoflach, 2007: 366, f. 110 (m).
Theridula opulenta Le Peru, 2011: 487, f. 859 (mf).
Theridula opulenta Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2021a: 72, f. A-F, 1 (f).
References

Agnarsson, I. (2004). Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 447-626. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Agnarsson, I., Coddington, J. A. & Knoflach, B. (2007). Morphology and evolution of cobweb spider male genitalia (Araneae, Theridiidae). Journal of Arachnology 35(2): 334-395. doi:10.1636/SH-06-36.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Archer, A. F. (1946). The Theridiidae or comb-footed spiders of Alabama. Museum Paper, Alabama Museum of Natural History 22: 1-67. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1893a). Notes on spiders. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 1: 123-134. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Butler, A. G. (1883). On some new or little known spiders from Madagascar. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 50(4, 1882): 763-768, pl. 57. [published in April 1883, after Duncan, 1937] doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1883.tb02795.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. (1982). Interne Arretierungsmechanismen an der Kopulationsorganen männlicher Spinnen (Arachnida, Araneae). Ein Beitrag zur Phylogenie der Araneoidea. Entomologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 45: 35-64. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1850). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 6: 18-35, 271-295. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Kaston, B. J. (1977). Supplement to the spiders of Connecticut. Journal of Arachnology 4: 1-72. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Keyserling, E. (1886b). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 2, 1-295. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 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

Levi, H. W. (1954c). The spider genus Theridula in North and Central America and the West Indies (Araneae: Theridiidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 73(4): 331-343. doi:10.2307/3223578 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 313-424. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sekhar, R. & Sunil Jose, K. (2021a). First record of two Theridula Emerton, 1882 species (Aranaea: Theridiidae) from India. In: Indu, M. S., Sebastian, H. & Joseph, P. (eds.) Modern trends in biological research. Vimala College, Thrissur, India, pp. 71-74. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1894a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 489-760. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1907d). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 1re partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 43: 218-323. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1889b). Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXXI. Descriptions d'espèces et the genres nouveaux de Madagascar et de Mayotte. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 8: 223-236. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1898i). On the spiders of the island of St Vincent. III. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 65(4, 1897): 860-890. [published in April 1898, after Duncan, 1937] doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb01390.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

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Date Type Reference Detail
2021-08-02 New taxonomic reference entry Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2021a n/a
2021-08-02 Species distribution update Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2021a n/a (Old value)