Taxon details


Phylloneta sisyphia (Clerck, 1757)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-10-14
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008690]
  • Distribution: Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Zoological Museum of the Martin-Luther-University, Halle (Saale) (ZMUH), Germany; f (1541) of Zilla alpina (Levi, 1974a)
Taxonomic references
Araneus sisyphius Clerck, 1757: 54, pl. 3, f. 5 (Df).
Aranea notata Linnaeus, 1758: 621 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055355].
Aranea nervosa Olivier, 1789: 210 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062530].
Araneus sisyphius Martyn, 1793: 24, pl. 4, f. 4 (f).
Aranea scopulorum Schrank, 1803: 241 (here per C. L. Koch, 1841a: vol. 8: 73; not Aranea scopulorum Fabricius, 1779, see Segestria senoculata).
Theridion nervosum Walckenaer, 1805: 74.
Theridion sisyphus Sundevall, 1831: 8, 1832: 115 (Dm).
Theridion sisyphum Hahn, 1834: 47, f. 132 (mf).
Theridion nervosum Hahn, 1834: 48, f. 133 (Dmf).
Linyphia cincta Walckenaer, 1841: 279 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062531].
Theridium sisyphus C. L. Koch, 1841a: vol. 8: 73, f. 644 (m, S of Theridion nervosum).
Aranea notata Walckenaer, 1847a: 485 (S of Linyphia cincta).
Steatoda sisyphus C. L. Koch, 1850: 17.
Theridion nervosum Blackwall, 1864a: 183, pl. 13, f. 116 (mf).
Zilla alpina Giebel, 1867b: 434 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055352].
Theridion sisyphium Thorell, 1870a: 86.
Theridion sisyphium Hansen, 1882: 34, pl. 2, f. 10 (mf).
Theridion sisyphum Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 33, pl. 1, f. 25 (mf).
Theridion sisyphum Becker, 1896: (2): 99, pl. 22, f. 1 (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Smith, 1900b: 206, p. 207, f. 1a (m).
Theridion sisyphum Bösenberg, 1902: 98, pl. 8, f. 118 (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Engelhardt, 1910: 74, f. 26 (f).
Theridion nervosum Fedotov, 1912a: 62, f. 2 (f).
Theridion sisyphum Simon, 1914: 257, 295, f. 509-511 (mf).
Theridion notatum Wiehle, 1937: 151, f. 76-80 (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Locket & Millidge, 1953: 66, f. 44A-B, 45A (mf).
Linyphia cincta Roewer, 1955c: 1542 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium).
Zygiella alpina Bonnet, 1959: 4998 (T from Zilla).
[Theridion sisyphium] ICZN, 1959: 89 (S of Theridion notatum, Clerckian names validated).
Theridium sisyphium Bonnet, 1959: 4530 (S of Linyphia cincta confirmed).
Theridion sisyphium Tystshenko, 1971: 147, f. 402, 425 (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Miller, 1971: 194, pl. XXXV, f. 2-3 (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Levi, 1974a: 270 (S of Zygiella alpina).
Theridion sisyphium Palmgren, 1974b: 19, f. 4.5-7 (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Punda, 1975b: 64, f. 135-136 (f).
Theridion sisyphium Roberts, 1985: 184, f. 81d (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Hu & Li, 1987a: 340, f. 18.1-2, 19.1-3 (mf).
Theridion sisyphius Hu & Wu, 1989: 138, f. 111.1-4 (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 302, f. 809 (mf).
Theridion sisyphius Zhao, 1993: 219, f. 99a-c (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Roberts, 1995: 282, f. (mf).
Theridion sisyphius Zhao, 1995: 937, f. 438a-c (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Mcheidze, 1997: 192, f. 385-387 (f).
Theridion sisyphium Bellmann, 1997: 68, f. (f).
Theridion sisyphium Zhu, 1998: 166, f. 104A-E (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Roberts, 1998: 295, f. (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 142, f. 80A-B, I-J (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Hu, 2001: 586, f. 397.1-3 (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Almquist, 2006: 103, f. 126a-g (mf).
Theridion sisyphium Agnarsson, Coddington & Knoflach, 2007: 381, f. 169-172, 188 (m).
Phylloneta sisyphia Wunderlich, 2008b: 393, f. 558-562 (m).
Theridion sisyphium Le Peru, 2011: 485, f. 850 (mf).
Phylloneta sisyphia Jin, 2018: 28, f. 4-18.A-D, pl. 6 (m).
Phylloneta sisyphia Breitling, 2020: 357, f. 35F (m).
References

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Bellmann, H. (1997). Kosmos-Atlas Spinnentiere Europas. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart, 304 pp. 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

Bonnet, P. (1959). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (5me partie: T-Z). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 4231-5058. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1894). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, pp. 1-151, Pl. I-V. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Clerck, C. (1757). Aranei Svecici. Svenska spindlar, uti sina hufvud-slågter indelte samt under några och sextio särskildte arter beskrefne och med illuminerade figurer uplyste. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholmiae [= Stockholm], 154 pp. [date of publication is 18 April 1757, see Breitling, 2022b: 10] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.119890 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Engelhardt, V. v. (1910). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der weiblichen Copulationsorgane einiger Spinnen. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 96: 32-117. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Fedotov, D. (1912a). Materialy k faounié paukow Twerskoï gouberny. Berichte der Biologischen Süßwasserstation der Kaiserlichen Naturforschergesellschaft zu St. Petersburg 3: 53-134. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Giebel, C. G. (1867b). Zur schweizerischen Spinnenfauna. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 30: 425-443. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hahn, C. W. (1834). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Zweiter Band, pp. 17-56, pl. 48-56 (f. 106-143). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hansen, H. J. (1882). Spindeldyr. In: Schiödte, J. C. (ed.) Zoologia Danica. Kjöbenhavn 3, 1-81, I-V. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Hu, J. L. & Li, A. H. (1987a). The spiders collected from the fields and the forests of Xizang Autonomous Region, China. (1). Agricultural Insects, Spiders, Plant Diseases and Weeds of Xizang 1: 315-392. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. & Wu, W. G. (1989). Spiders from agricultural regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Shandong University Publishing House, Jinan, 435 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. (2001). Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Henan Science and Technology Publishing House, 658 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

ICZN (1959). Direction 104. Grant of the status of availability to the names published by C. A. Clerck in 1757 in the work Aranei Svecici and addition of the title of that work to the Official List of works approved as available for use in Zoological Nomenclature. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 17(3-5): 89-91. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jin, C. (2018). Theridiidae, Ctenidae, Liocranidae. In: Zhang, F. & Xue, X. F. (eds.) Fauna of Tianmu Mountain. Volume II. Arachnida. Araneae Eriophyoidea. Zhejiang University Press, Hangzhou, pp. 11-33, 79-80, 90-91, pl. 2-7, 17, 19. 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

Levi, H. W. (1974a). The orb-weaver genus Zygiella (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 146(5): 267-290. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius, Holmiae [= Stockholm], 821 pp. (Araneae, pp. 619-624). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.542 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

Martyn, T. (1793). Aranei, or a natural history of spiders, including the principal parts of the well known work on English spiders by Eleazar Albin, as also the whole of the celebrated publication on Swedish spiders by Charles Clerk. Tomkins & Vincent, London, 70 pp. & 11 pls. [Clerck], 31 pp. & 17 pls. [Albin]. [only the Clerckian part contains binominal names, the plates are different from Clerck's and not every fig. is mentioned in the text] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.119889 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Walckenaer, C. A. (1805). Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Dentu, Paris, 88 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1847a). Dernier Supplément. In: Walckenaer, C. A. & Gervais, P. (eds.) Histoire naturelles des Insects. Aptères. Tome quatrième. Roret, Paris, pp. 365-596 [Araneae: -564]. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Zhao, J. Z. (1993). Spiders in the cotton fields in China. Wuhan Publishing House, Wuhan, China, 552 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2023-06-13 New taxonomic reference entry Zhao, 1995 n/a
2022-04-14 New taxonomic reference entry Jin, 2018 n/a
2021-05-26 New taxonomic reference entry Martyn, 1793 n/a
2020-11-24 New taxonomic reference entry Smith, 1900b n/a
2020-03-24 New taxonomic reference entry Breitling, 2020 n/a