Stegodyphus lineatus (Latreille, 1817)
Description
Male
Colouration as in female, but opisthosoma with black stripes wider.
Body length male: 8-15 mmFemale
Prosoma uniformly dark red brown, with longitudinal rows of white hairs. Prosoma 5.1-8.1 mm long. Sternum and legs lighter than prosoma, with blackish and white hairs. Opisthosoma covered with white hairs, and with 2 longitudinal black stripes.
Body length female: 10-23 mmAdditional information
In sunny and dry areas, bushes, shrubs, Apiaceae. This species has a colonial life style during the early stages, but adults are solitary. Young spiders remain gregarious when they come out of the egg sac. During the earliest stages the spiders are completely dependent on maternal feeding by regurgitation. Adults have solitary living, but sometimes adult males have been observed close to the female in the same web. Females have been reported to reach maturity after 9 moultings, and males after 7 to 9 moultings. Adult females may continue to moult.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Miller et al. 2012)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Miller et al. 2012)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Breitling 2020)
Pedipalp
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Seropian et al. 2023b)
Tip of pedipalp
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Conductor
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Miller et al. 2012)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Miller et al. 2012)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Habitus, dorsal view
(El-Hennawy 2009)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Seropian et al. 2023b)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Miller et al. 2012)
Epigyne
(Breitling 2020)
Epigyne
(Najim & Abbas 2022)
Epigyne
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Preepigyne
(Breitling 2020)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Miller et al. 2012)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Najim & Abbas 2022)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Miller et al. 2012)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Miller et al. 2012)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Kraus & Kraus 1989)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Seyyar & Demir 2021b)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Najim & Abbas 2022)
Habitus, ventral view
(Najim & Abbas 2022)
Habitus, dorsal view
(El-Hennawy 2009)
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.
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 
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535
Bosmans R (2003) A checklist of the spiders of Tunisia, with description of a new species of Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Kaupia - Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 12: 89-109
Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
El-Hennawy H K (2009) Eresidae of Sudan (Araneida: Eresidae). Serket 11: 129-137
El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183
Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
Kraus O, Kraus M (1989) The genus Stegodyphus (Arachnida, Araneae). Sibling species, species groups, and parallel origin of social living. Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 30: 151-254
Miller J A, Griswold C E, Scharff N, Řezáč M, Szűts T, Marhabaie M (2012) The velvet spiders: an atlas of the Eresidae (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys 195: 1-144
Najim S A, Abbas A F (2022) New locality data of Stegodyphus lineatus (Latreille, 1817) (Araneae: Eresidae) from Basrah province south of Iraq. Serket 18: 382-385
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Otto S, Krammer H-J, Kachlishvili N, Datunashvili A (2023b) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297
Seyyar O, Demir H (2021b) The poorly known species Stegodyphus lineatus (Latreille, 1817) (Araneae: Eresidae) in Turkey. Serket 18: 77-79
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
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