Taxon details
Theridula opulenta (Walckenaer, 1841)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-11-05
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008814]
- Distribution: North America. Introduced to southern Europe, India
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Theridion sphaerula Hentz, 1850: 279, pl. 9, f. 22 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062857].
Chrysso cordiformis Butler, 1883: 763, pl. 57, f. 2 (Df; Levi, 1954c: 341 discusses the probable validity, but without revaldating it) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062858].
Theridium ventillans Keyserling, 1884a: 84, pl. 4, f. 53 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062860].
Theridula quadripunctata Keyserling, 1886b: 32, pl. 11, f. 151 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062861].
Theridula cordiformis Simon, 1889b: 229 (T from Chrysso).
Theridula sphaerula Banks, 1893a: 125 (S of Theridion ventillans).
Theridula opulenta Simon, 1894a: 543, 545, 551, f. 561 (m, S of Theridula gonygaster [revalidated by Levi, 1954c: 340], Theridula nivipicta [rejected by Levi, 1954c: 340, see Theridula gonygaster] and T. sphaerula).
Theridula opulenta Simon, 1898i: 862 (S of Theridula tricornis; rejected by Levi, 1954c: 340, see Theridula gonygaster).
Theridula opulenta F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 393, pl. 37, f. 11-11d (f, S of Theridula cordiformis, T. nivipicta, T. quinqueguttata and T. triangularis [S of the latter three rejected by Levi, 1954c: 340, see Theridula gonygaster]).
Theridula opulenta Simon, 1907d: 260.
Theridula opulenta Petrunkevitch, 1911: 211 (S of Theridula quadripunctata).
Theridula ventillans Archer, 1946: 52 (removed from S of Theridula opulenta; S confirmed by Levi, 1954c: 334).
Theridula sphaerula Archer, 1946: 52 (removed from S of Theridula opulenta; S confirmed by Levi, 1954c: 334).
Theridula opulenta Levi, 1954c: 334, f. 9-13 (mf, S of Theridula sphaerula and T. ventillans confirmed [for T. sphaerula see also Theridula emertoni]).
Theridula opulenta Kaston, 1977: 12, f. 3-4 (mf).
Theridula opulenta Heimer, 1982: 43, f. 10 (m).
Theridula opulenta Hu, 1984: 174, f. 183.1-2 (m).
Theridula opulenta Agnarsson, 2004: 596, f. 81A-G, 82A-F (mf).
Theridula opulenta Agnarsson, Coddington & Knoflach, 2007: 366, f. 110 (m).
Theridula opulenta Le Peru, 2011: 487, f. 859 (mf).
Theridula opulenta Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2021a: 72, f. A-F, 1 (f).
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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Agnarsson, I., Coddington, J. A. & Knoflach, B. (2007). Morphology and evolution of cobweb spider male genitalia (Araneae, Theridiidae). Journal of Arachnology 35(2): 334-395. doi:10.1636/SH-06-36.1 -- Show included taxa
Archer, A. F. (1946). The Theridiidae or comb-footed spiders of Alabama. Museum Paper, Alabama Museum of Natural History 22: 1-67. -- Show included taxa
Banks, N. (1893a). Notes on spiders. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 1: 123-134. -- Show included taxa
Butler, A. G. (1883). On some new or little known spiders from Madagascar. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 50(4, 1882): 763-768, pl. 57. [published in April 1883, after Duncan, 1937] doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1883.tb02795.x -- Show included taxa
Heimer, S. (1982). Interne Arretierungsmechanismen an der Kopulationsorganen männlicher Spinnen (Arachnida, Araneae). Ein Beitrag zur Phylogenie der Araneoidea. Entomologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 45: 35-64. -- Show included taxa
Hentz, N. M. (1850). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 6: 18-35, 271-295. -- Show included taxa
Hu, J. L. (1984). The Chinese spiders collected from the fields and the forests. Tianjin Science and Technology Press, 482 pp. -- Show included taxa
Kaston, B. J. (1977). Supplement to the spiders of Connecticut. Journal of Arachnology 4: 1-72. -- 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
Keyserling, E. (1886b). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. II. Hälfte. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 295 pp., pl. 11-21. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1954c). The spider genus Theridula in North and Central America and the West Indies (Araneae: Theridiidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 73(4): 331-343. doi:10.2307/3223578 -- Show included taxa
Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- 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
Sekhar, R. & Sunil Jose, K. (2021a). First record of two Theridula Emerton, 1882 species (Aranaea: Theridiidae) from India. In: Indu, M. S., Sebastian, H. & Joseph, P. (eds.) Modern trends in biological research. Vimala College, Thrissur, India, pp. 71-74. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1894a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 489-760. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1907d). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 1re partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 43: 218-323. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1889b). Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXXI. Descriptions d'espèces et the genres nouveaux de Madagascar et de Mayotte. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 8: 223-236. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1898i). On the spiders of the island of St Vincent. III. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 65(4, 1897): 860-890. [published in April 1898, after Duncan, 1937] doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb01390.x -- Show included taxa
Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-02 | New taxonomic reference entry | Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2021a | n/a |
| 2021-08-02 | Species distribution update | Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2021a | n/a (Old value) |