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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Theridion  Walckenaer, 1805   63 species

Theridion pinicola Simon, 1873

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008613

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Description
Male

Bulb with a strong, conical, reddish apophysis, and a small black tooth. Prosoma 1 mm long. Characters as in female.

Female

Epigyne: atrium small, semicircular, with a posterior black wide margin. Prosoma light brownish, with a dark wedge-shaped mark on cephalic part, and a thin dark borderline. Prosoma 1 mm long. Sternum light greenish grey, sometimes darker on margin. Legs whitish, with dark annulations. Opisthosoma: colouration variable, geenish grey, dorsally with a grey dentate median band, bordered with white, this band is widened in the middle, and forms a light broad triangle, ventrally uniformly coloured.

Body length female: 2.9 mm
Additional information

In pine forests.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France (Corsica), Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
Adults of both sexes in summer.
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

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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)

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 / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Spain   (Barrientos et al., 2019b) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Arco L del, Castañé C, Agustí N, Jauset A M, Batuecas I, Alomar Ó (2019b) Arañas epiedáficas (Aranjeae [sic]) en plantaciones de melocotoneros del Segrià, el Bajo Cinca y La Litera (España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 34: 41-50 pdf

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

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 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
08-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
05-05-2021 Distribution insert Detail