Taxon details


Simitidion simile (C. L. Koch, 1836)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-04-29
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008009]
  • Distribution: Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia. Introduced to Canada
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Theridion simile C. L. Koch, 1836a: 62, f. 215 (Df).
Theridium simile C. L. Koch, 1841a: vol. 8: 79, f. 649 (Dm).
Steatoda similis C. L. Koch, 1850: 17.
Theridion simile Blackwall, 1864a: 187, pl. 14, f. 119 (mf).
Theridion erebennum Bertkau, in Förster & Bertkau, 1883: 243, pl. 3, f. 5 (Dmf).
Theridion simile Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 35, pl. 1, f. 34 (mf).
Theridion simile Becker, 1896: (2): 101, pl. 22, f. 2 (mf).
Theridion simile Bösenberg, 1902: 106, pl. 9, f. 132 (mf).
Theridion erebennum Bösenberg, 1902: 105, pl. 9, f. 131 (mf).
Theridion salvum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1912c: 88, pl. A, f. 8 (D).
Theridion simile Simon, 1914: 264, 271, 299, f. 524 (mf).
Theridion simile Wiehle, 1937: 169, f. 132-135 (mf).
Theridion simile Locket & Millidge, 1953: 68, f. 46B, 47C (mf).
Theridion simile Levi, 1957a: 53, f. 179-180, 187 (mf).
Theridion simile Tystshenko, 1971: 150, f. 413, 430 (mf).
Theridion simile Miller, 1971: 196, pl. XXXV, f. 6-7 (mf).
Theridion simile Palmgren, 1974b: 26, f. 5.14-17 (mf).
Theridion simile Punda, 1975b: 68, f. 143, 150-151 (mf).
Theridion simile Roberts, 1985: 184, f. 82d (mf).
Theridion simile Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 300, f. 807 (mf).
Simitidion simile Wunderlich, 1992a: 418, f. 601-604 (Tmf from Theridion).
Theridion simile Roberts, 1995: 284, f. (mf).
Simitidion simile Knoflach, 1996c: 151, f. 4-6, 8, 10, 13-16 (mf).
Theridium simile Mcheidze, 1997: 194, f. 397-398 (m).
Theridion simile Roberts, 1998: 298, f. (mf).
Theridion simile Levy, 1998b: 182, f. 343-348 (mf).
Theridion simile Guryanova, 2003: 5, f. 3 (f).
Simitidion simile Trotta, 2005: 176, f. 468-469 (mf).
Simitidion simile Almquist, 2006: 88, f. 111a-h (mf).
Simitidion simile Agnarsson, Coddington & Knoflach, 2007: 375, f. 145-148, 187 (m).
Simitidion simile Türkes & Mergen, 2007: 115, f. 2 (f).
Simitidion simile Wunderlich, 2008b: 395, f. 579-587 (mf).
Theridion simile Le Peru, 2011: 485, f. 849 (mf).
Simitidion cf simile Lecigne, 2011: 56, f. P93-98, S1 (m).
Simitidion simile Lecigne, 2017: 35, f. 14J-L (m).
Simitidion simile Vanuytven, 2021: 256, f. B.274-277 (m).
Simitidion simile Tutar & Yağmur, 2023: 219, f. 21A-B (f).
References

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

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

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

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

Förster, A. & Bertkau, P. (1883). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Spinnenfauna der Rheinprovinz. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 40: 205-278. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Guryanova, V. E. (2003). Materials to the spider fauna of Podolian wood-and-steppe (Ukraine). Vestnik Zoologii 37: 3-11. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Knoflach, B. (1996c). Das Männchen von Simitidion agaricographum (Levy & Amitai) (Arachnida: Araneae, Theridiidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 83: 149-156. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1836a). Die Arachniden. Dritter Band. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, pp. 1-104, pl. 73-105 (f. 164-245). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 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. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Heft 5. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, 77 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561 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

Lecigne, S. (2017). Contribution a la connaissance de l’araneofaune (Araneae) de l’Algarve (Portugal). Description de Theridion bernardi n.sp. (Araneae: Theridiidae) et redécouverte d’Ozyptila perplexa Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 25-48. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S. (2011). Inventaire aranéologique dans la Province d'Izmir (Turquie) (Arachnida, Araneae). Le bulletin d'Arthropoda 46(2): 5-83. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1957a). The spider genera Enoplognatha, Theridion, and Paidisca in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 112: 1-124. 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

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

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

Palmgren, P. (1974b). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. V. Theridiidae und Nesticidae. Fauna Fennica 26: 1-54. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1912c). On new and rare British arachnids noted and observed in 1911. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 33: 70-95. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Roberts, M. J. (1985). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England, 229 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

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

Trotta, A. (2005). Introduzione al ragni italiani (Arachnida Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 83: 3-178. doi:10.4081/memorieSEI.2004.3 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Türkeş, T. & Mergen, O. (2007). The comb-footed spider fauna of the central Anatolia region and new records for the Turkish fauna (Araneae: Theridiidae). Serket 10: 112-119. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tutar, O. & Yağmur, E. A. (2023). Spider (Araneae) fauna of İzmir Peninsula (Çeşme, Karaburun, Urla), Türkiye. Serket 19(2): 197-222. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Vanuytven, H. (2021). The Theridiidae of the World. A key to the genera with their diagnosis and a study of the body length of all known species. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society 35(Supplement): 1-363. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1937). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. 26. Familie. Theridiidae oder Haubennetzspinnen (Kugelspinnen). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 119-222. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1992a). Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1-619. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2008b). On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 140-469, 792-794, 796-800, 803, 819-859. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-04-29 New taxonomic reference entry Tutar & Yağmur, 2023 n/a
2021-02-16 New taxonomic reference entry Vanuytven, 2021 n/a
2018-11-19 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, 2011 n/a
2018-01-01 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, 2017 n/a