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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Steatoda  Sundevall, 1833   19 species

Steatoda latifasciata  (Simon, 1873)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008067

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Description
Male

Prosoma deep brown with striae. Sternum purplish black. Chelicerae relatively slender. Legs yellowish to dark brown. Opisthosoma purplish black, with white markings dorsally and a white median line ventrally.

Body length male: 3.5 mm
Female

Colouration as in male.

Body length female: 3.8-6.1 mm
Additional information

Under stones, in burrows and in fissures. Egg sac about 5 mm in diameter, with over 30 eggs.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2022): Canary Is. to Israel
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Adults of both sexes probably all the year.
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

species

male Chelicera
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

species

female Epigyne
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

species

female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

species

female Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

Distribution List
Algeria   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Egypt   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||
References

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

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

Levy G, Amitai P (1982b) The cobweb spider genus Steatoda (Araneae, Theridiidae) of Israel and Sinai. Zoologica Scripta 11: 13-30 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

WSC (2022) World Spider Catalog. Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (21.01.2022) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf