Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Coscinida  Simon, 1895   1 species

Coscinida tibialis Simon, 1895

Description

Prosoma light brown, margin with fine, black line, eye region black. Sternum light brown. Legs yellow. Opisthosoma brown, dorsum with irregular, greyish spots, venter dark in median area.

Body length male: 1.7-1.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain (Balearic Is.), France, Algeria, Tunisia, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Angola, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Israel, Yemen. Introduced to India, Thailand
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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) ||| Azerbaijan   (Marusik & Kunt, 2010) ||| France   (Oger & Gros, 2016) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b; Marusik & Kunt, 2010) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a; Marusik & Kunt, 2010) |||
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 pdf

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

Crespo L C, Mendes S, Prado e Castro C (2010) Two additions to the portuguese and iberian spider (Arachnida, Araneae) fauna. Graellsia 66: 97-100 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info 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, Bosmans R, van Harten A, Van Keer J (2005) On Coscinida tibialis Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Theridiidae): genital morphology, distribution, web building and a new synonym. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 202-206 pdf

Levy G (1998b) Araneae: Theridiidae. In Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida III. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem. , 228 pp. pdf

Marusik Y M, Kunt K B (2010) Spiders (Araneae) new to the fauna of Turkey. 1. Genera of Theridiidae. Turkish Journal of Arachnology 3(1): 1-8 pdf

Oger P, Gros P (2016) Découverte en France de Coscinida tibialis Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Theridiidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 3: 11-13 pdf

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Otto S, Krammer H-J, Kachlishvili N, Datunashvili A (2023b) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297 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

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