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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Episinus  Walckenaer, 1809   7 species

Episinus theridioides Simon, 1873

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007676

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Description
Male

Prosoma 1.1 mm long. Characters as in female.

Body length male: 2.8 mm
Female

Epigyne with rounded cavity, slightly wider than long, with the edges hardly sclerotized. Prosoma light brownish, with a black borderline and a median longitudinal blackish band. Prosoma 1.2-1.3 mm long. Sternum dark brown, lighter in the middle. Eyes: median ocular quadrangle much narrower in front than behind. Legs yellowish with dark annulations, as in E. angulatus. Opisthosoma greyish with numerous black spots, folium indistinct, ventrally with some whitish spots. Opisthosoma oval, rounded behind, without tubercles.

Body length female: 3.1-3.6 mm
Additional information

In coniferous and beech forests, meadows and under stones. Altitude 800-1400 m.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France (incl. Corsica), Italy (Sardinia)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral-ventral view
(Knoflach 1993b)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Knoflach 1993b)

species

male Bulbus, ventral view
(Knoflach 1993b)

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male Bulbus, dorsal view
(Knoflach 1993b)

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male Tip of cymbium, ventral view
(Knoflach 1993b)

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female Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

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female Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

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female Habitus, lateral view
(Knoflach 1993b)

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.

France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

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

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 pdf

Knoflach B (1993b) Das Männchen von Episinus theridioides Simon (Arachnida: Araneae, Theridiidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 66: 359-366 pdf

Knoflach B, Rollard C, Thaler K (2009b) Notes on Mediterranean Theridiidae (Araneae) - II. ZooKeys 16: 227-264 pdf

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

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
26-05-2020 Distribution update Detail
01-06-2015 Image insert