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Genus: Steatoda Sundevall, 1833 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Steatoda punctulata (Marx, 1898)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008105

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Distribution: USA, Mexico

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Holotype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA f (destroyed) - (Gertsch, 1960b)
Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1f - (Gertsch, 1960b)

Taxonomic References

Lithyphantes punctulata Marx, in Banks, 1898b: 239, pl. 14, f. 4 (Df; formally preoccupied in Steatoda by Menge, 1868, see Platnickina tincta, but they have never been considered congeneric at the same time) Original description

Lithyphantes punctulatus Chamberlin, 1924b: 640 (S of Steatoda medialis, revalidated by Levi, 1957b: 388)

Steatoda medialis Levi, 1957b: 388, f. 34, 44, 55 (mf; misidentified per Gertsch, 1960b: 11)

Steatoda punctulata Levi, 1959d: 109, f. 1-20 (mf)

Steatoda punctulata Gertsch, 1960b: 11, f. 3-5, 11-13, 26-27 (mf)

References

Banks, N. (1898b). Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (3) 1(7): 205-309. -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1924b). The spider fauna of the shores and islands of the Gulf of California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 12: 561-694. -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. (1960b). The fulva group of the spider genus Steatoda (Araneae, Theridiidae). American Museum Novitates 1982: 1-48. -- 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. (1959d). Problems in the spider genus Steatoda (Theridiidae). Systematic Zoology 8: 107-116. -- Show included taxa

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