Taxon details


Cryptachaea blattea (Urquhart, 1886)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-11-04
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007354]
  • Distribution: Africa. Introduced to USA, Chile, Azores, St. Helena, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Theridium blatteus Urquhart, 1886: 190, pl. 7, f. 2 (Df).
Theridium setiger Urquhart, 1886: 196, pl. 8, f. 3 (Df).
Theridium tuberculum Urquhart, 1887: 104 (Df).
Theridium albo-gullatum Urquhart, 1887: 108, pl. 8, f. 11 (Dm).
Theridion acoreensis Berland, 1932a: 74, f. 1-2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006742].
Dipoena tubercula Bryant, 1933b: 10, pl. 2, f. 16, pl. 4, f. 42 (mf).
Dipoena blattea Bryant, 1935c: 57 (S of Theridium albo-gullatum, T. setiger and T. tuberculum).
Theridion acoreensis Machado, 1941: 22, f. 18-21 (f, Dm).
Achaearanea geochares Levi, 1955a: 20, f. 39-40, 46 (Dmf).
Achaearanea acoreensis Denis, 1962a: 60, f. 57-59 (Tmf from Theridion).
Achaearanea acoreensis Levi, 1963b: 220 (S of Achaearanea geochares).
Achaearanea teja Levi, 1967a: 8, f. 8-10 (Df).
Achaearanea acoreensis Levi, 1967c: 179, f. 12-14 (mf).
Achaearanea acoreensis Sedgwick, 1974: 349 (S of Achaearanea teja).
Achaearanea acoreensis Wunderlich, 1992a: 408, f. 567-569 (mf).
Achaearanea blattea Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2003: 29, f. 3a-c (Tmf from Dipoena).
Cryptachaea acoreensis Yoshida, 2008: 39 (Tmf from Achaearanea).
Cryptachaea blattea Vink et al., 2009: 57, f. 1-6 (Tmf from Achaearanea, S of Cryptachaea acoreensis).
Cryptachaea acoreensis Crespo et al., 2009a: 474, f. 11 (f).
Cryptachaea blattea Paquin, Vink & Dupérré, 2010: 62, f. 34.1, 13-14 (mf).
Cryptachaea blattea Le Divelec, Courtial & Rollard, 2018: 2, f. 1A-D (f).
Cryptachaea blattea Vanuytven, 2021: 115, f. B.81a, B.83a (m).
References

Berland, L. (1932a). Voyage de MM. L. Chopard et A. Méquignon aux Açores (août-septembre 1930). II; Araignées. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 101: 69-84. [includes: Rectification. In: Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 37(8): 119 - doi:10.3406/bsef.1932.14406)] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1933b). Notes on types of Urquhart's spiders. Records of the Canterbury Museum 4: 1-27, pl. 1-5. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1935c). Notes on some of Urquhart's species of spiders. Records of the Canterbury Museum 4: 53-70, pl. 8-9. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Crespo, L. C., Cardoso, P., Henriques, S. & Gaspar, C. (2009a). Spiders (Araneae) from Porto Santo (Madeira, Portugal): additions to the current knowledge. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 45: 471-475. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1962a). Les araignées de l'archipel de Madère (Mission du Professeur Vandel). Publicações do Instituto Zoologia Doutor Augusto Nobre 79: 9-118, pl. 1-12. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Fitzgerald, B. M. & Sirvid, P. J. (2003). The genus Trigonobothrys in New Zealand and a redescription of Achaearanea blattea (Theridiidae: Araneae). Tuhinga 14: 25-33. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Le Divelec, R., Courtial, C. & Rollard, C. (2018). Cryptachaea blattea (Urquart, 1886) and Pseudomaro aenigmaticus (Denis, 1966): deux araignées nouvelles pour la France (Araneae: Theridiidae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 5: 2-6. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1955a). The spider genera Coressa and Achaearanea in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae). American Museum Novitates 1718: 1-33. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1963b). American spiders of the genus Achaearanea and the new genus Echinotheridion (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 129: 187-240. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1967a). The theridiid spider fauna of Chile. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 136(1): 1-20. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1967c). Cosmopolitan and pantropical species of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae). Pacific Insects 9: 175-186. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Machado, A. de B. (1941). Araignées nouvelles pour la faune portugaise (II). Memorias e Estudos do Museu Zoologico da Universidade de Coimbra 117: 1-60. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P., Vink, C. & Dupérré, N. (2010). Spiders of New Zealand: annotated family key & species list. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand, 118 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sedgwick, W. C. (1974). New species, records and synonyms of Chilean theridiid spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae). Psyche, Cambridge 80(4, 1973): 349-354. doi:10.1155/1973/95235 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Urquhart, A. T. (1886). On the spiders of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 18: 184-205. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Urquhart, A. T. (1887). On new species of Araneida. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 19: 72-118, pl. 7-8. 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

Vink, C., Dupérré, N., Paquin, P., Fitzgerald, B. M. & Sirvid, P. J. (2009). The cosmopolitan spider Cryptachaea blattea (Urquhart 1886) (Araneae: Theridiidae): Redescription, including COI sequence, and new synonymy. Zootaxa 2133: 55-63. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2133.1.5 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

Yoshida, H. (2008). A revision of the genus Achaearanea (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica 57(1): 37-40. doi:10.2476/asjaa.57.37 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2021-02-16 New taxonomic reference entry Vanuytven, 2021 n/a
2018-10-05 New taxonomic reference entry Le Divelec, Courtial & Rollard, 2018 n/a
2016-09-19 New taxonomic reference entry Crespo et al., 2009a n/a