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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Theridion  Walckenaer, 1805   63 species

Theridion wiehlei  Schenkel, 1938

Description
Male

Prosoma 1.4-1.5 mm long. Characters as in female.

Body length male: 2.5 mm
Female

Prosoma yellowish, darker on margin, with a triangular brown patch near fovea. Prosoma 1.6 mm long. Sternum uniform dark red-brown. Legs yellowish, with dark annulations. Opisthosoma dorsally whitish, with an indistinct dentate median band, bordered with blackish, ventrally brown, with a small white spot on each side of spinnerets, and a pair of white blotches near epigastric furrow.

Body length female: 2.9-3.1 mm
Additional information

Mediterranean species, sporadically in rocky heathland in Austria, open areas in pine forest.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Germany: see comment by Blick et al. (2016), Switzerland: uncertain (Hänggi & Stäubli 2012)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, France, Algeria, Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan
Phenology
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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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France  Removed (Le Peru, 2007; Danflous et al., 2020b) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi, 2003) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

Danflous S, Déjean S, Guerbaa K, Jacquet C, Lecigne S, Montagne D, Montardi Y, Villepoux O (2020b) De araneis Galliae IV. Actualisation du référentiel des araignées de France – première note. Espèces absentes de France ou mises en nomen dubium. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 5: 10-32 pdf

Deltshev C D (1992a) A critical review of family Theridiidae (Araneae) in Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 43: 13-21 pdf

Denis J (1945a) Sur quelques Theridion appartenant à la faune de France. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 49: 111-117 pdf

Hänggi A (2003) Nachträge zum "Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen" - 3. Neunachweise von 1999 bis 2002 und Nachweise synanthroper Spinnen Arachnologische Mitteilungen 26: 36-54 pdf

Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

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 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 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

Wiehle H (1937) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VIII. 26: Familie Theridiidae oder Haubennetzspinnen (Kugelspinnen). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 119-222 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

Updates
05-10-2020 Distribution update Detail
26-07-2020 Image insert
03-09-2015 Image insert
02-03-2015 Distribution update Detail