Taxon details
Steatoda erigoniformis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
- Described:
- Last updated: 2024-08-27
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008048]
- Distribution: North Africa, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Middle East, India, China, Korea, Japan. Introduced to USA, Caribbean, Venezuela, Cape Verde, South Africa
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; f of Euryopis albomaculata (Bosmans & Hervé, 2021)
- 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)
- Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; 1m 1f (B. 588, t. 17) (Levy & Amitai, 1982b)
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).
Steatoda erigoniformis Alioua & Bosmans, 2024: 326, f. 14a-c (m).
Alioua, Y. & Bosmans, R. (2024). Spiders of arid lands: the Ghardaïa region (northern Sahara) with seven new records for Algeria. Zootaxa 5497(3): 301-336. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.1 -- Show included taxa
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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Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
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2024-08-26 | New taxonomic reference entry | Alioua & Bosmans, 2024 | n/a |
2024-08-26 | Species distribution update | Alioua & Bosmans, 2024 | n/a (Old value) |
2024-07-23 | New taxonomic reference entry | Van Keer, Bosselaers & Oger, 2024 | n/a |
2024-04-01 | Species distribution update | n/a (Old value) | |
2023-05-11 | New taxonomic reference entry | Tripathi et al., 2023d | n/a |
2023-05-11 | Species distribution update | Tripathi et al., 2023d | n/a (Old value) |
2023-02-10 | New taxonomic reference entry | Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021A | n/a |
2023-02-10 | Species distribution update | Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021A | n/a (Old value) |
2022-07-19 | New taxonomic reference entry | Kim, 2021 | n/a |
2022-06-29 | New taxonomic reference entry | Coşar & Danışman, 2022b | n/a |
2021-04-26 | New taxonomic reference entry | Bosmans & Hervé, 2021 | n/a |
2021-04-26 | Species synonymy | Bosmans & Hervé, 2021 | Steatoda albomaculata synonymized with Steatoda erigoniformis |
2021-01-03 | New taxonomic reference entry | Heinrichs & Barrion, 2004 | n/a |