Steatoda latifasciata (Simon, 1873)
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 mmFemale
Colouration as in male.
Body length female: 3.8-6.1 mmAdditional information
Under stones, in burrows and in fissures. Egg sac about 5 mm in diameter, with over 30 eggs.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Chelicera
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Epigyne
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)
Epigyne
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Epigyne
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Epigyne
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Epigyne
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Epigyne
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)
Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Habitus, ventral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
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
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
Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95
Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184
Levy G, Amitai P (1982b) The cobweb spider genus Steatoda (Araneae, Theridiidae) of Israel and Sinai. Zoologica Scripta 11: 13-30
Van Keer J, Bosselaers J, Oger P (2024) Description of four new Steatoda species (Araneae: Theridiidae) from the Mediterranean region with notes on some related species. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 39(2, suppl.): 1-77
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2