Cryptachaea blattea (Urquhart, 1886)
Description
Male
Pedipalp with short embolus that lies against conductor. Prosoma dark yellow to dark brown or black. Sternum dark brown. Legs whitish yellow, with dark brown annulations. Opisthosoma with black and white pattern, and with small tubercle situated just posterior to mid-dorsal point.
Body length male: 1.7-2.4 mmFemale
Epigyne with protruding knob and roundish opening. Colouration as in males. Opisthosoma: dorsal tubercle less pronounced.
Body length female: 2.2-3.2 mmAdditional information
In Europe found in gardens and parks. This species probably originated in Macaronesia and is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe at least once and did establish.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Vink et al. 2009)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Vink et al. 2009)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Vink et al. 2009)
Epigyne
(Crespo et al. 2009b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Vink et al. 2009)
Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Vink et al. 2009)
Habitus
(Vink et al. 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
Bink J (2014a) Cryptachaea blattea (Urquhart, 1886) (Araneae, Theridiidae) voor het eerst waargenomen in Nederland. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 34: 11 
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
Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Crespo L C, Cardoso P, Henriques S, Gaspar C (2009b) Spiders (Araneae) from Porto Santo (Madeira, Portgal): Additions to the current knowledge. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 45: 471-475
Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144
Hänggi A, Straub S (2016) Storage buildings and greenhouses as stepping stones for non-native potentially invasive spiders (Araneae) - a baseline study in Basel, Switzerland Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 1-8
Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212
Le Divelec, Courtial C, Rollard C (2018) Cryptachaea blattea (Urquart, 1886) and Pseudomaro aenigmaticus (Denis, 1966): deux araignées nouvelles pour la France (Araneae: Theridiidae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 5: 2-6
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Marriott D (2012) Cryptachaea blattea (Urquhart, 1886) a theridiid new to Great Britain. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 123: 9-10
Nolan M (2020) Notes on ‘Irish’ spiders (Arachnida): Atypus affinis Eichwald (Atypidae) and Entelecara errata O. P.-Cambridge (Linyphiidae) removed from the Irish list; Cryptachaea blattea (Urquhart) (Theridiidae) new to Ireland. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 189-204
Sührig A (2010) Cryptachaea blattea, eine weitere nach Deutschland eingeschleppte Spinnenart (Araneae: Theridiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 39: 1-4
Vink C J, Dupérré N, Paquin P, Fitzgerald B M, Sirvid P J (2009) The cosmopolitan spider Cryptachaea blattea (Urquhart 1886) (Araneae: Theridiidae): Redescription, including COI sequence, and new synonymy. Zootaxa 2133: 55-63
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
Updates
| 05-11-2024 | Distribution update | Detail |
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