Taxon details
Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-11-04
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007859]
- Distribution: Central and South America. Introduced to Macaronesia, St. Helena, North Africa, Europe, Middle East, China, Japan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, New Zealand, Pacific Is.
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- Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Theridium bajulans L. Koch, 1875, (29530)
Theridion luteolum Blackwall, 1859b: 259 (Dj).
Theridion borbonicum Vinson, 1863: 318, pl. 14, f. 6 (Df).
Theridion luteipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869b: 382, pl. 12, f. 46-51 (Dmf).
Theridion albonotatum Taczanowski, 1874: 56 (Dmf).
Theridion bajulans L. Koch, 1875b: 21, pl. 2, f. 4-5 (Dmf).
Theridion flavo-aurantiacum Simon, 1880i: 171 (Df).
Theridion longipes van Hasselt, 1882: 33 (Dm).
Theridion albonotatum Keyserling, 1884a: 15, pl. 1, f. 4 (mf).
Theridion rufipes Simon, 1898b: 271.
Theridion rufipes Kulczyński, 1899: 374, pl. 6, f. 33 (Dm).
Theridion rufipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 384, pl. 36, f. 15-16 (mf).
Anelosimus nelsoni Bryant, 1945c: 200, f. 8 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048876].
Nesticodes rufipes Archer, 1950: 22, pl. II, f. 7-8 (Tmf from Theridion).
Robertus pilosus Denis, 1956a: 203, f. 15-16 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054078].
Theridion rufipes Levi, 1956b: 413 (S of Anelosimus nelsoni).
Theridion rufipes Levi, 1957a: 56, f. 188-193 (mf, S of Robertus pilosus).
Theridion rufipes Levi & Levi, 1962: 45, f. 95 (m).
Theridion rufipes Chrysanthus, 1963: 748, f. 106-109 (mf).
Theridion rufipes Levi, 1967c: 179, f. 24-27 (mf).
Theridion rufipes Roberts, 1978: 913, f. 20-26 (mf).
Theridion rufipes Levy & Amitai, 1982a: 86, f. 1-5 (mf).
Nesticodes rufipes Wunderlich, 1987a: 215, f. 570 (mf).
Theridion rufipes González & Estévez, 1988: 500, f. 1-3 (f).
Theridion rufipes Tanikawa, 1991b: 2, f. 1-5 (mf).
Nesticodes rufipes Zhu, 1998: 117, f. 71A-E (mf).
Theridion rufipes Levy, 1998b: 171, f. 322-326 (mf).
Nesticodes rufipes Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 127, f. 65N-Q (mf).
Nesticodes rufipes Yoshida, 2001c: 167, f. 36-39 (mf).
Nesticodes rufipes Yoshida, 2003a: 82, f. 196-199 (mf).
Nesticodes rufipes Agnarsson, 2004: 573, f. 58A-F, 59A-F (mf).
Nesticodes rufipes Saaristo, 2006: 67, f. 51-54 (mf).
Nesticodes rufipes Wunderlich, 2008b: 391, f. 534-438 (mf).
Nesticodes rufipes Yoshida, 2009b: 374, f. 163-164 (mf).
Nesticodes rufipes Saaristo, 2010: 259, f. 37.90-94 (mf).
Nesticodes rufipes Gabriel, 2010a: 40, f. 1A-C, 2-4 (f).
Nesticodes rufipes Talukdar & Sanyal, 2013: 42, unnumbered f. (mf).
Nesticodes rufipes Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2017: 478, f. 1A-F (f).
Nesticodes rufipes Vanuytven, 2021: 46, 204, f. A.36f, B.203-204 (m).
Agnarsson, I. (2004). Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 447-626. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x 
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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. -- Show included taxa
Blackwall, J. (1859b). Descriptions of newly discovered spiders captured by James Yate Johnson Esq., in the island of Madeira. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 4(22): 255-267. doi:10.1080/00222935908697122 -- Show included taxa
Bryant, E. B. (1945c). Notes on some Florida spiders. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 36: 199-213. -- Show included taxa
Chrysanthus, P. (1963). Spiders from south New Guinea V. Nova Guinea, Zoology 24: 727-750. -- Show included taxa
Denis, J. (1956a). Notes d'aranéologie marocaine.-VI. Bibliographie des araignées du Maroc et addition d'espèces nouvelles. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc 35: 179-207. -- Show included taxa
Gabriel, G. (2010a). Nesticodes rufipes - Erstnachweis einer pantropischen Kugelspinne in Deutschland (Araneae: Theridiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 39: 39-41. doi:10.5431/aramit3905 -- Show included taxa
González, A. & Estévez, A. L. (1988). Estudio del desarrollo postembrionario y estadísticos vitales de Theridion rufipes Lucas, 1846 (Araneae, Theridiidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 32: 499-506. -- Show included taxa
Hasselt, A. W. M. van (1882). Araneae. In: Veth, P. J. (ed.) Midden-Sumatra 4A(11). Reizen en onderzoekingen der Sumatra-expeditie, uitgerust door het aardrijkskundig genootschap, 1877-1879. Brill, Leiden, pp. 1-56, pl. 1-5. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.119451 -- Show included taxa
Keyserling, E. (1884a). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. I. Hälfte. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 222 pp., pl. 1-10. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa
Koch, L. (1875b). Aegyptische und abyssinische Arachniden gesammelt von Herrn C. Jickeli. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 96 pp., pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa
Kulczyński, W. (1899). Arachnoidea opera Rev. E. Schmitz collecta in insulis Maderianis et in insulis Selvages dictis. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 36: 319-461. -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1956b). The spider genera Neottiura and Anelosimus in America (Araneae: Theridiidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 75(4): 407-422. doi:10.2307/3223613 -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. & Levi, L. R. (1962). The genera of the spider family Theridiidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 127(1): 1-71, pl. 1-14. -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1967c). Cosmopolitan and pantropical species of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae). Pacific Insects 9: 175-186. -- 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 -- Show included taxa
Levy, G. (1998b). Araneae: Theridiidae. In: Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida III. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, 228 pp. -- Show included taxa
Lucas, H. (1846). Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. In: Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842 publiée par ordre du Gouvernement et avec le concours d'une commission académique. Paris, Sciences physiques, Zoologie 1, 89-271, pl. 1-17. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.112444 -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1869b). Catalogue of a collection of Ceylon Araneida lately received from Mr J. Nietner, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. I. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10(46): 373-397, pl. 11-13. [pp. 395-397, pl. 11-13 publ. in issue 47 in 1870, doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1870.tb00668.x] doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1869.tb00667.x -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 313-424. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] -- Show included taxa
Roberts, M. (1978). Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Séchelles (Mission P.L.G. Benoit - J.J. Van Mol 1972). Theridiidae, Mysmenidae and gen. Theridiosoma (Araneidae) (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 92: 902-939. -- Show included taxa
Saaristo, M. I. (2006). Theridiid or cobweb spiders of the granitic Seychelles islands (Araneae, Theridiidae). Phelsuma 14: 49-89. -- Show included taxa
Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa
Sekhar, R. & Sunil Jose, K. (2017). New distributional records of Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846) in India. Munis Entomology and Zoology 12(2): 478-480. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1880i). Matériaux pour servir à une faun arachnologique de la Nouvelle Calédonie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 23(C.R.): 164-175. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1898b). Etudes arachnologiques. 28e Mémoire. XLIII. Arachnides recueillis par M. le Dr Ph. François en Nouvelle Calédonie, aux Nouvelles-Hebrides (Mallicolo) et à l'île de Vanikoro. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 66: 271-276. -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa
Taczanowski, L. (1874). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 10: 56-115, pl. 2. -- Show included taxa
Talukdar, S. & Sanyal, A. K. (2013). First record of the genus Nesticodes Simon, 1894 [sic!] from India with taxonomic studies on a red cob-web-spider Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846) (Araneae: Theridiidae) from West Bengal, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 113(3): 41-47. -- Show included taxa
Tanikawa, A. (1991b). Two newly recorded spiders, Theridion rufipes Lucas, 1846, and Coleosoma floridanum Banks, 1900 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan. Atypus 98/99: 1-7. -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Vinson, A. (1863). Aranéides des îles de La Réunion, Maurice et Madagascar. Librairie Classique Eugène Belin, Paris, 337 pp., pl. 1-14. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.125517 -- Show included taxa
Wunderlich, J. (1987a). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen, 435 pp. -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Yoshida, H. (2001c). A revision of the Japanese genera and species of the subfamily Theridiinae (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica 50(2): 157-181. doi:10.2476/asjaa.50.157 -- Show included taxa
Yoshida, H. (2003a). The spider family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Japan. Arachnological Society of Japan, 224 pp. -- Show included taxa
Yoshida, H. (2009b). Uloboridae, Theridiidae, Ctenidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 142-147, 356-393, 467-468. -- Show included taxa
Zhu, M. S. (1998). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing, 436 pp. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-02-15 | New taxonomic reference entry | Vanuytven, 2021 | n/a |
| 2017-06-27 | New taxonomic reference entry | Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2017 | n/a |
| 2015-05-18 | New taxonomic reference entry | Talukdar & Sanyal, 2013 | n/a |