Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Yaginumena  Yoshida, 2002   1 species

Yaginumena maculosa  (Yoshida & Ono, 2000)

Description
Male

Prosoma yellowish grey, with trident pattern, cephalic region raised. Sternum, labium, maxillae and chelicerae greyish yellow. Legs yellow. Opisthosoma dark grey, dorsally and laterally with small yellow spots, dorsum with thin pale median stripe.

Body length male: 1.43 mm
Female

Colouration as in males, somewhat paler. Opisthosoma: median stripe and spots less pronounced.

Body length female: 1.9 mm
Additional information

This species of Asian origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe at least once and did establish.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Turkey, Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaijan), India, China, Korea, Japan
Phenology
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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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (no references) |||
References

Marusik Y M, Guseinov E F, Koponen S, Yoshida H (2005a) A new case of Caucasus-Far East disjunctive range in spiders (Araneae). Acta Arachnologica 53: 125-129 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

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf