Steatoda triangulosa (Walckenaer, 1802)
Description
Male
Conductor long and bent. Tibia of male palpal longer than cymbium. Prosoma red-brown, wrinkled, 1.6-2 mm long. Sternum red-brown, wrinkled. Chelicerae brown, shiny. Legs yellowish, to bright red-brown, all segments sometimes distally darkened. Opisthosoma dark brown to almost black, pattern yellowish, sometimes broken into single spots.
Body length male: 3.5-5 mmFemale
Epigyne small and rounded. Prosoma 1.8-2 mm long. Colouration as in male.
Body length female: 3.5-8.6 mmAdditional information
Only in buildings in Central Europe, at dry, sunny places under stones in the south, in caves, dunes, forests, garrigue, fallow land, marshes, rocky seashore, littoral salty areas.
Since a few decades, this species shows some spreading tendencies within Europe. Nevertheless, it shall not be listed as alien or invasive because it is native for Europe.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini unpubl.)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1995)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wiehle 1937)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Yoshida 2001)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Pesarini unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1937)
Epigyne
(Yoshida 2001)
Epigyne
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Epigyne, with mating plug
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1937)
Vulva
(Yoshida 2001)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Vulva, posterior view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Habitus
(Wiehle 1937)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Faúndez & Carvajal 2016)
Distribution List
References
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Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019
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Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2021a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2021 [last updated 1 January 2021], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Faúndez E I, Carvajal M A (2016) The spider genus Steatoda Sundevall, 1833 (Araneae: Theridiidae) in the State of North Dakota (USA). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 29: 83-85
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Pesarini C (unpubl.)
Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110
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Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.
Rozwałka R, Rutkowski T, Bielak-Bielecki P (2013) New data on introduced and rare synanthropic spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) in Poland. Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin-Polonia 68: 127-150
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
Stanković M, Ćurĉić M (2020) New species in the arachnofauna of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the protected habitat of Gromiţelj, Velino Selo. Archives for Technical Sciences 22: 67-78
Taberlet J-P (unpubl.)
Wiehle H (1937) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VIII. 26: Familie Theridiidae oder Haubennetzspinnen (Kugelspinnen). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 119-222
WSC (2022) World Spider Catalog. Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (21.01.2022) doi: 10.24436/2
Yoshida H (2001) The spider genera Robertus, Enoplognatha, Steatoda and Crustulina (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 50: 31-48
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