Taxon details
Theridion melanostictum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-11-04
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008517]
- Distribution: Macaronesia, Mediterranean to Egypt, India, Central Asia, China, Japan. Introduced to Canada, USA, Galapagos Is., Poland, St. Helena, Society Is.
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: College of Environment and Plant Protection, Hainan University (HANU), Haikou, China; m of Enoplognatha angkora (Barrion et al., 2013)
- Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f (1978.11.1.17) of Theridion scorinum (Roberts, 1983)
- Allotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1978.11.1.18) (Roberts, 1983)
Theridion purcelli Benoit, 1977i: 142, f. 60a-d, 61a-b (mf; misidentified per Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1278).
Theridion miami Levi, 1980b: 336, f. 3-9 (Dmf).
Theridion melanostictum Levy & Amitai, 1982a: 99, f. 32-37 (f, Dm).
Theridion scorinum Roberts, 1983: 233, f. 66-74 (Dmf).
Theridion melanostictum Levy, 1985a: 114 (S).
Theridion melanostictum Wunderlich, 1987a: 219, f. 577-579 (mf).
Theridion melanostictum Wunderlich, 1992a: 419, f. 605 (f).
Theridion ogasawarense Yoshida, 1993e: 111, f. 6-9 (Dmf).
Theridion melanostictum Knoflach, 1998: 589, f. 48, 54, 55c (mf).
Theridion melanostictum Zhu, 1998: 148, f. 90A-E (mf).
Theridion melanostictum Levy, 1998b: 192, f. 364-369 (mf).
Theridion melanostictum Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 138, f. 76E-F, K-L (mf).
Theridion melanostictum Yoshida, 2003a: 75, f. 178-181 (mf, S).
Theridion melanostictum Saaristo, 2006: 82, f. 93-96 (mf).
Theridion melanostictum Paquin, Dupérré & Labelle, 2008: 222, f. 4A-G (mf).
Theridion melanostictum Yoshida, 2009b: 370, f. 131-132 (mf).
Theridion melanostictum Saaristo, 2010: 271, f. 37.138-140 (mf).
Theridion melanostictum Le Peru, 2011: 480, f. 830 (mf).
Theridion melanostictum Ono, 2011b: 452, f. 51-55 (mf).
Theridion melanostictum Yin et al., 2012: 412, f. 182a-e (mf).
Theridion melanostictum Dierkens & Charlat, 2013: 70, f. 12 (m).
Enoplognatha angkora Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, in Barrion et al., 2013: 38, f. 43A-D (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048455].
Theridion melanostictum Bodkhe, Manthen & Uniyal, 2015: 112, f. 1-11 (m).
Theridion melanostictum Déjean, 2015a: 4, f. 1-3 (f).
Theridion melanostictum Baert, Van Keer & Wauters, 2016: 13, f. 1-2 (mf).
Theridion melanostictum Rozwałka, Dawidowicz & Wawer, 2017: 63, f. 5-6 (m).
Theridion melanostictum El-Hennawy, 2017b: 206, f. 58a (m).
Theridion melanostictum Prasad et al., 2019: 113, f. 22-23 (f).
Theridion melanostictum Zamani, Nadolny & Dolejš, 2022: 566, f. 8E (m).
Theridion melanostictum Suzuki, 2022b: 187, f. 1-6 (mf).
Theridion melanostictum Abdel-Ghani, Hassan & Sallam, 2023: 36, f. 25 (f).
Theridion melanostictum Lin et al., 2023a: 522 (S of Enoplognatha angkora).
Theridion melanostictum Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1278, f. 72 (f).
Abdel-Ghani, D. M., Hassan, M. F. & Sallam, G. M. E. (2023). Spiders as a bio-agent factor in a mango greenhouse at Giza Governorate, Egypt. Serket 20(1): 26-38. 
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Baert, L., Van Keer, J. & Wauters, N. (2016). The spider Theridion melanostictum (Araneae, Theridiidae), a recent introduction to Galapagos?. Galapagos Research 68: 13-14. -- Show included taxa
Barrion, A. T., Barrion-Dupo, A. L. A., Catindig, J. L. A., Villareal M., O., Cai, D., Yuan, Q. H. & Heong, K. L. (2013). New species of spiders (Araneae) from Hainan Island, China. UPLB Museum Publications in Natural History 3: 1-103. doi:10.5281/zenodo.269136 -- Show included taxa
Benoit, P. L. G. (1977i). Fam. Theridiidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 131-152. -- Show included taxa
Bodkhe, A. K., Manthen, S. V. & Uniyal, V. P. (2015). First record of Theridion melanostictum O.P.-Cambridge, 1876 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from India. Serket 14(3): 111-115. -- Show included taxa
Déjean, S. (2015a). Theridion melanostictum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (Araneae, Theridiidae) nouveau pour la faune de France. Revue Arachnologique (2) 2: 4-5. -- Show included taxa
Dierkens, M. & Charlat, S. (2013). Contribution à la connaissance des araignées des îles de la Société (Polynésie française). Revue Arachnologique 17: 63-81. -- Show included taxa
El-Hennawy, H. K. (2017b). Illustrated key to spider families of Egypt (Arachnida: Araneae). Serket 15(4): 184-208. -- Show included taxa
Knoflach, B. (1998). Mating in Theridion varians Hahn and related species (Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of Natural History 32(4): 545-604. doi:10.1080/00222939800770301 -- 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
Levi, H. W. (1980b). Two new spiders of the genera Theridion and Achaearanea from North America. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 99(3): 334-337. doi:10.2307/3226010 -- Show included taxa
Levy, G. & Amitai, P. (1982a). The comb-footed spider genera Theridion, Achaearanea and Anelosimus of Israel (Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of Zoology, London 196(1): 81-131. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1982.tb03496.x -- Show included taxa
Levy, G. (1985a). Spiders of the genera Episinus, Argyrodes and Coscinida from Israel, with additional notes on Theridion (Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of Zoology, London (A) 207: 87-123. -- 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
Lin, Y. J., Wu, L. B., Cai, D. C., Li, S. Q., Barrion, A. T. & Heong, K. L. (2023a). Review of 43 spider species from Hainan Island, China (Arachnida, Araneae). Zootaxa 5351(5): 501-533. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5351.5.1 -- Show included taxa
Ono, H. (2011b). Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Memoirs of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo 47: 435-470. -- Show included taxa
Paquin, P., Dupérré, N. & Labelle, S. (2008). Introduced spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in an artificial ecosystem in eastern Canada. Entomological News 119: 217-226. -- 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
Prasad, P., Tyagi, K., Caleb, J. T. D. & Kumar, V. (2019). A new species of the cob web spider genus Theridion from India (Araneae: Theridiidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 26: 108-117. doi:10.37828/em.2019.26.7 -- Show included taxa
Roberts, M. J. (1983). Spiders of the families Theridiidae, Tetragnathidae and Araneidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Aldabra atoll. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(3): 217-291. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1983.tb00099.x -- Show included taxa
Rozwałka, R., Dawidowicz, A. & Wawer, W. (2017). Three alien spider species (Araneae: Theridiidae) newly found in Poland. Fragmenta Faunistica 60(1): 61-66. doi:10.3161/00159301FF2017.60.1.061 -- Show included taxa
Saaristo, M. I. (2006). Theridiid or cobweb spiders of the granitic Seychelles islands (Araneae, Theridiidae). Phelsuma 14: 49-89. -- Show included taxa
Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa
Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Jocqué, R., Fowler, L., Marusik, Y. M., Maddison, W., Harvey, M. S., Hormiga, G., Rheims, C. A., Piacentini, L. N., Peters, M., Stevens, N., Joshua, D., Scipio-O’Dean, C. J., Ellick, G., Wilkins, V., Ashmole, M. & Ashmole, P. (2024e). Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19(9): 1218-1291. -- 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
Suzuki, Y. (2022b). [A list of spiders collected from Okinawa islands (Okinawa-jima, Sesoko-jima, Ikê-jima, Yabuchi-jima and Kume-jima islands), Japan]. Kishidaia 120: 186-196. -- Show included taxa
Wunderlich, J. (1987a). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen, 435 pp. -- Show included taxa
Wunderlich, J. (1992a). Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1-619. -- 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. (1993e). Two new species of the genus Theridion (Araneae: Theridiidae) from the Yaeyama Islands and Haha-jima Island of the Bonin Islands, Japan. Acta Arachnologica 42(2): 109-113. doi:10.2476/asjaa.42.109 -- 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
Zamani, A., Nadolny, A. A. & Dolejš, P. (2022). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part X. Arachnology 19(2): 551-573. doi:10.13156/arac.2022.19.2.551 -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-04 | Taxonomic reference added from other taxon | n/a (Old value) | |
| 2024-11-04 | New taxonomic reference entry | Sherwood et al., 2024e | n/a |
| 2024-11-04 | Species distribution update | Sherwood et al., 2024e | n/a (Old value) |
| 2023-12-28 | New taxonomic reference entry | Abdel-Ghani, Hassan & Sallam, 2023 | n/a |
| 2023-09-30 | New taxonomic reference entry | Lin et al., 2023a | n/a |
| 2023-09-30 | Species synonymy | Lin et al., 2023a | Theridion angkora synonymized with Theridion melanostictum |
| 2022-07-11 | New taxonomic reference entry | Zamani, Nadolny & Dolejš, 2022 | n/a |
| 2022-04-13 | New taxonomic reference entry | Suzuki, 2022b | n/a |
| 2019-12-29 | New taxonomic reference entry | Prasad et al., 2019 | n/a |
| 2017-12-13 | New taxonomic reference entry | El-Hennawy, 2017b | n/a |
| 2017-11-15 | New taxonomic reference entry | Rozwałka, Dawidowicz & Wawer, 2017 | n/a |
| 2017-11-15 | Species distribution update | Rozwałka, Dawidowicz & Wawer, 2017 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2016-12-19 | New taxonomic reference entry | Baert, Van Keer & Wauters, 2016 | n/a |
| 2016-12-19 | Species distribution update | Baert, Van Keer & Wauters, 2016 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2015-10-12 | New taxonomic reference entry | Déjean, 2015a | n/a |
| 2015-06-10 | New taxonomic reference entry | Bodkhe, Manthen & Uniyal, 2015 | n/a |
| 2015-06-10 | Species distribution update | Bodkhe, Manthen & Uniyal, 2015 | n/a (Old value) |