World Spider Catalog

Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Hadrotarsidae Thorell, 1881: 190 (sub Hadrotarsoidae, removed from the synonymy of Oonopidae by Roewer, 1963a: 122, rejecting Roewer, 1942a: 287) by Forster, Platnick & Coddington, 1990: 111 (per Wunderlich, 1978a: 25 and Wunderlich, 1986: 95, rejecting Baert, 1984a: 615 and Davies, 1985: 67), who recognized an expanded Hadrotarsinae as well as a separate subfamily Spintharinae Simon, 1894a: 512 (sub Spinthareae); the subfamily Theonoeinae Simon, 1894a: 586 (sub Theonoeae) (synonym Pholcommatinae Simon, 1894a: 589, sub Pholcommateae), which include Theonoe Simon, 1881, Carniella Thaler & Steinberger, 1988, Robertus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879 and Pholcomma Thorell, 1869, is circumscribed by Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 51; Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 also mention the subfamilies Argyrodinae Simon, 1881a: 14 (sub Argyrodini) and Latrodectinae Petrunkevitch, 1928: 117 (junior synyonym of Dipoeninae Simon, 1894a: 561, sub Dipoeneae).

Gen. Heterotheridion Wunderlich, 2008 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03861

type Theridion nigrovariegatum Simon, 1873; gender neuter

N.B.: synonymy of Ohlertidion Wunderlich, 2008 with Heterotheridion, proposed by Breitling, 2019b: 27, not accepted here as it is based mainly on COI, see FAQ 7).

In synonymy:

Heterotheridion frivaldszkyi (Herman, 1879) = Heterotheridion nigrovariegatum (Simon, 1873) (Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 33, sub Theridium)

Heterotheridion peristeri (Drensky, 1929) = Heterotheridion nigrovariegatum (Simon, 1873) (Deltshev, 2003: 137, sub Theridion)

Heterotheridion tuberculatum (Kroneberg, 1875) = Heterotheridion nigrovariegatum (Simon, 1873) (Marusik, 1989b: 48, sub Theridion)

Heterotheridion xinjiangense (Hu & Wu, 1989, T from Theridion) = Heterotheridion nigrovariegatum (Simon, 1873) (Knoflach, Rollard & Thaler, 2009: 238)

Heterotheridion nigrovariegatum (Simon, 1873) | | Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia, Iran, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008561 TYPE SPECIES

Theridion nigro-variegatum Simon, 1873a: 104, pl. 2, f. 27 (Dmf) Original description

Heterotheridion nigrovariegatum Vanuytven, 2021: 48, 158, f. A.37c, B.142-144 (m)

Theridium tuberculatum Kroneberg, 1875: 9, pl. 5, f. 40 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057548]

Theridium frivaldszkyi Herman, 1879: 89, 347, pl. 7, f. 154 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057549]

Theridium nigrovariegatum Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 33, pl. 1, f. 27 (mf, S of Theridium frivaldszkyi)

Theridion tuberculatum Simon, 1894a: 541 (S of Therdion dromedarius [revalidated by Simon, 1908a: 432] and T. palustre [rejected by Simon, 1908a: 432, see Paidiscura dromedaria])

Theridion nigrovariegatum Bösenberg, 1902: 107, pl. 9, f. 134 (mf)

Theridion nigrovariegatum Simon, 1914: 255, 294, f. 505-506 (mf)

Theridion peristeri Drensky, 1929: 29, 67, pl. 3, f. 1-2 (Df; N.B.: spelled this way in legend, peristerensis in heading, but peristeri was subsequently used by Drensky, as first reviser) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008598]

Theridion nigrovariegatum Wiehle, 1937: 147, f. 63-69 (mf)

Theridion nigrovariegatum Buchar & Zdárek, 1960: 100, f. 4 (f)

Theridion nigrovariegatum Brignoli, 1968d: 98, f. 6 (m)

Theridion nigrovariegatum Tystshenko, 1971: 147, f. 424 (f)

Theridion nigrovariegatum Miller, 1971: 194, pl. XXXIV, f. 18-19 (mf)

Achaearanea xinjiangensis Hu & Wu, 1989: 119, f. 92.1-5 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008789]

Theridion nigrovariegatum Marusik, 1989b: 48 (S of Theridion tuberculatum)

Theridion nigrovariegatum Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 302, f. 810 (mf)

Theridion xinjiangensis Zhu, 1998: 187, f. 121A-E (mf, T from Achaearanea)

Theridion xinjiangense Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 148, f. 82E-F, I-J (mf)

Theridion nigrovariegatum Jäger et al., 2000: 34, f. 1-5 (mf)

Theridion nigrovariegatum Deltshev, 2003: 137, f. 11-12 (f, S of Theridion peristeri)

Theridion nigrovariegatum Agnarsson, Coddington & Knoflach, 2007: 382, f. 185 (m)

Theridion nigrovariegatum Türkes & Mergen, 2007: 119, f. 5a-b (mf)

Heterotheridion nigrovariegatum Wunderlich, 2008b: 389, f. 510-516 (mf)

Heterotheridion nigrovariegatum Knoflach, Rollard & Thaler, 2009: 238, f. 32-33, 44, 59 (mf, S of Theridion xinjiangense)

Theridion nigrovariegatum Le Peru, 2011: 482, f. 837 (mf)