Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Parasteatoda  Archer, 1946   4 species

Parasteatoda tabulata  (Levi, 1980)

Description
Male

Prosoma 1.3-1.6 mm long.

Body length male: 2.9 mm
Female

Prosoma blackish brown, 1.4-1.9 mm long. Legs yellowish with dark brown annulations. Opisthosoma: colour and pattern as in P. tepidariorum.

Body length female: 3.2-4.6 mm
Additional information

On south-exposed walls of new buildings, synanthropically distributed.

This species of Asian origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe at least once and did establish.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Tropical Asia. Introduced to North America, Europe, Georgia, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Females with egg sacs from September to November.
Figures
Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Austria   (no references) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Lithuania   (no references) ||| Netherlands   (no references) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Central   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Plakkhina & Esyunin, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Western   (no references) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Bink J (2014b) Parasteatoda tabulata Levi, 1980 (Araneae, Theridiidae) voor het eerst waargenomen in Nederland. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 34: 12-15 pdf

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 pdf

Knoflach B (1991) Achaearanea tabulata Levi, eine für Österreich neue Kugelspinne (Arachnida, Aranei: Theridiidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 78: 59-64 pdf

Moritz M, Levi H W, Pfüller R (1988) Achaearanea tabulata, eine für Europa neue Kugelspinne (Araneae, Theridiidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 35: 361-367 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Plakkhina E V, Esyunin S L (2022) New data on introduced spider species (Arachnida: Aranei) from the Urals. Arthropoda Selecta 31: 363-371 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Sestáková A, Gajdoš P (2011) Expanzný druh snovačky Parasteatoda tabulata Levi, 1980 (Araneae, Theridiidae) na Slovensku [An expansive comb-footed spider Parasteatoda tabulata Levi, 1980 (Araneae, Theridiidae) for the first time from Slovakia]. Folia faunistica Slovaca 16: 169-172 pdf

Sozontov A N, Esyunin S L (2012) On the fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of Udmurt Republic. Arthropoda Selecta 21: 85-95 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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