Taxon details


Parasteatoda lunata (Clerck, 1757)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-01-25
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006814]
  • Distribution: Europe, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran. Introduced to South Africa
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Araneus lunatus Clerck, 1757: 52, pl. 3, f. 7 (Df).
Araneus formosus Clerck, 1757: 56, pl. 3, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053913].
Aranea lunata Olivier, 1789: 210, [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059778].
Aranea formosa Olivier, 1789: 210.
Araneus lunatus Martyn, 1793: 23, pl. 4, f. 1 (f).
Araneus formosus Martyn, 1793: 26, pl. 3, f. 7 (f).
Aranea sisiphia Walckenaer, 1802: 206 (D; preoccupied by Clerck, 1757 sub Araneus, see Phylloneta sisyphia).
Aranea urticae Walckenaer, 1802: 210 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059783].
Theridion sisiphum Walckenaer, 1805: 74.
Theridion sisyphum Hahn, 1836: 1, pl. 29, f. e (Df).
Theridion sisiphum Walckenaer, 1841: 298.
Theridion urticae Walckenaer, 1841: 326 (Df).
Theridium lunatum C. L. Koch, 1841a: vol. 8: 74, f. 645 (Dmf).
Theridion lunatum C. L. Koch, 1845: 137, f. 1060-1061 (mf).
Theridion formosum Westring, 1851: 39.
Steatoda lunata Thorell, 1856: 28.
Theridion formosum Westring, 1861: 157 (Dmf).
Theridion sisyphum Blackwall, 1864a: 179, pl. 13, f. 113 (mf).
Steatoda lunata Menge, 1866: 150, pl. 28, f. 63 (mf).
Steatoda formosa Karsch, 1873: 128.
Theridion formosum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879d: 83, pl. 4, f. 1 (mf).
Theridion formosum Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 35, pl. 1, f. 37 (mf).
Theridion formosum Simon, 1894a: 533, f. 538.
Theridion lunatum Simon, 1895a: 805 (S of Theridion formosum).
Theridion formosum Becker, 1896: (2): 95, pl. 21, f. 1 (mf).
Theridion formosum Bösenberg, 1902: 97, pl. 8, f. 116 (mf).
Theridion formosum Engelhardt, 1910: 71, f. 24 (f).
Theridion formosum Simon, 1914: 260, 296, f. 519 (mf).
Theridion lunatum Reimoser, 1930b: 54, f. 7 (mf).
Theridion lunatum Wiehle, 1937: 158, f. 95-100 (mf).
Theridion lunatum Roewer, 1942a: 474 (S of Theridion urticae).
Theridion lunatum Denis, 1945a: 111, f. 1, 4 (m).
Parasteatoda formosum Archer, 1950: 14 (T from Theridion).
Theridion lunatum Locket & Millidge, 1953: 62, f. 42, 43A-B, G (mf).
Theridium urticae Bonnet, 1959: 4547.
Theridium lunatum Tystshenko, 1971: 150, f. 409, 431 (mf).
Achaearanea lunata Miller, 1971: 192, pl. XXXIV, f. 5-7 (mf).
Achaearanea lunata Martin, 1974b: 251, f. 1c, pl. I, f. 3, pl. II, f. 8 (mf).
Achaearanea lunata Palmgren, 1974b: 30, f. 8.1-5 (mf).
Achaearanea lunata Punda, 1975b: 59, f. 119-120 (f).
Achaearanea lunata Levy & Amitai, 1982a: 121, f. 79-84 (mf).
Achaearanea lunata Roberts, 1985: 182, f. 80d (mf).
Achaearanea lunata Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 280, f. 752 (mf).
Achaearanea lunata Knoflach, 1991: 61, f. 11, 16 (m).
Achaearanea lunata Roberts, 1995: 278, f. (mf).
Theridium lunatum Mcheidze, 1997: 194, f. 394-396 (mf).
Achaearanea lunata Roberts, 1998: 292, f. (mf).
Achaearanea lunata Levy, 1998b: 165, f. 316-321 (mf).
Achaearanea lunata Knoflach, 2004: 218, f. 60e-f (m).
Achaearanea lunata Almquist, 2006: 50, f. 77a-k (mf).
Achaearanea lunata Agnarsson, Coddington & Knoflach, 2007: 370, f. 121-124 (m).
Parasteatoda lunata Yoshida, 2008: 39 (T from Achaearanea).
Achaearanea lunata Le Peru, 2011: 433, f. 650 (mf).
Parasteatoda lunata Kaya & Ugurtas, 2011: 147, f. 8-9 (mf).
Parasteatoda lunata Vanuytven, 2021: 45, 220, f. A.34a, B.222a-b, B.223 (m).
Parasteatoda lunata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z: 52, p. 51: 2 f., p. 52: 6 f. (mf).
References

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Almquist, S. (2006). Swedish Araneae, part 1 – families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 62(2005): 1-284. [publ. in 2006 per Jonsson, in litt.] download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Archer, A. F. (1950). A study of theridiid and mimetid spiders with descriptions of new genera and species. Museum Paper, Alabama Museum of Natural History 30: 1-40. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Becker, L. (1896). Les arachnides de Belgique, deuxième et troisième parties. Annales du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 12(2): 1-127, pl. 1-25 & 12(3): 1-378, pl. 1-18. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48721 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1864a). A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Part II. Ray Society, London, pp. 175-384, pl. 13-29. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.143674 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bonnet, P. (1959). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (5me partie: T-Z). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 4231-5058. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1902). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(2-4): 97-384, pl. 9-36. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6508 download pdf download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1894). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, pp. 1-151, Pl. I-V. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Clerck, C. (1757). Aranei Svecici. Svenska spindlar, uti sina hufvud-slågter indelte samt under några och sextio särskildte arter beskrefne och med illuminerade figurer uplyste. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholmiae [= Stockholm], 154 pp. [date of publication is 18 April 1757, see Breitling, 2022b: 10] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.119890 download pdf -- 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. N.B.: year corrected from 1944 to 1945 by Canard & Cruveillier, 2016: 43 doi:10.3406/bsef.1944.15782 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021z). The Theridiidae of South Africa. Part 1 A-P. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 69 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7515890 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Engelhardt, V. v. (1910). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der weiblichen Copulationsorgane einiger Spinnen. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 96: 32-117. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hahn, C. W. (1836). Monographie der Spinnen. Lechner, Nürnberg, Heft 8, 1 p., 4 pls. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.122225 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1873). Verzeichniss westfälischer Spinnen (Araneiden). Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 10: 113-160. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kaya, R. S. & Uğurtaş, İ. H. (2011). The cobweb spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae) of Uludağ Mountain, Bursa. Serket 12: 144-153. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Knoflach, B. (1991). Achaearanea tabulata Levi, eine für Österreich neue Kugelspinne (Arachnida, Aranei: Theridiidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 78: 59-64. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Knoflach, B. (2004). Diversity in the copulatory behaviour of comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae). In: Thaler, K. (ed.) Diversität und Biologie von Webspinnen, Skorpionen und anderen Spinnentieren. Denisia 12: 161-256. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1841a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Achter Band, pp. 41-131, pl. 265-288 (f. 621-694); Neunter Band, pp. 1-56, pl. 289-306 (f. 695-726). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1845). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Zwölfter Band, pp. 1-166, pl. 397-432 (f. 960-1077). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 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

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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1998b). Araneae: Theridiidae. In: Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida III. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, 228 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1953). British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Martin, D. (1974b). Morphologie und Biologie der Kugelspinne Achaearanea simulans (Thorell, 1875) (Araneae: Theridiidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 50: 251-262. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Martyn, T. (1793). Aranei, or a natural history of spiders, including the principal parts of the well known work on English spiders by Eleazar Albin, as also the whole of the celebrated publication on Swedish spiders by Charles Clerk. Tomkins & Vincent, London, 70 pp. & 11 pls. [Clerck], 31 pp. & 17 pls. [Albin]. [only the Clerckian part contains binominal names, the plates are different from Clerck's and not every fig. is mentioned in the text] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.119889 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mcheidze, T. S. (1997). [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi University, 390 pp. (in Georgian). [English version published by Otto (2014) available here] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Menge, A. (1866). Preussische Spinnen. Erste Abtheilung. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (N.F.) 1: 1-152, pl. 1-28. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1879d). The spiders of Dorset. Araneidea. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 1: 1-235. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Punda, H. (1975b). Pająki Borów Sosnowych. Polska Akad. Nauk, 91 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Reimoser, E. (1930b). Einheimische Spinnen 5. Die Natur (Wien) 6: 9-15, 53-58. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Roewer, C. F. (1942a). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung für Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy, Bremen, 1040 pp. download pdf 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. (1914). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 1re partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-308. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Thorell, T. (1856). Recensio critica aranearum suecicarum quas descripserunt Clerckius, Linnaeus, de Geerus. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis (3) 2(1): 61-176. [the cited page numbers at the single species refer to a separate, which started at p. 1] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tystshenko, V. P. (1971). Opredelitel' paukov evropejskoj chasti SSSR. Leningrad, 281 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Walckenaer, C. A. (1802). Faune parisienne. Insectes. Ou histoire abrégée des insectes de environs de Paris, classés d'après le système de Fabricius. Tome seconde. Dentu, Paris, pp. 187-250, 428-430. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8151 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1805). Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Dentu, Paris, 88 pp. 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

Westring, N. (1851). Förteckning öfver de till närvarande tid Kände, i Sverige förekommande Spindlarter, utgörande ett antal af 253, deraf 132 äro nya för svenska Faunan. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 2: 25-62. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2023-02-10 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z n/a
2023-02-10 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z n/a (Old value)
2021-05-26 New taxonomic reference entry Martyn, 1793 n/a
2021-05-26 New taxonomic reference entry Martyn, 1793 n/a
2021-02-15 New taxonomic reference entry Vanuytven, 2021 n/a