Steatoda trianguloides Levy, 1991
Description
Carapace and sternum light brown, surface densely covered with small, pointed tubercles. Lateral eyes touching. Chelicerae slender. Legs yellowish, tuberculate. Opisthosoma light with dark sclerotised ridges anteriorly, a few black spots posteriorly.
Body length male: 3.3 mmAdditional information
In rocky terrain.
Distribution
Phenology
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
 |  |
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lissner 2016c)
Pedipalp, mesal view
(Levy 1991)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1991)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1991)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2020c)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
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)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Olivares et al. 2025)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Olivares et al. 2025)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Olivares et al. 2025)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Olivares et al. 2025)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Olivares et al. 2025)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Olivares et al. 2025)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1991)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Epigyne
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)
Epigyne
(Türkeş & Ballı 2022)
Epigyne
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Epigyne
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Epigyne
(Olivares et al. 2025)
Epigyne
(Olivares et al. 2025)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)
Vulva, ventral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Olivares et al. 2025)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Olivares et al. 2025)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Türkeş & Ballı 2022)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Türkeş & Ballı 2022)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Habitus, ventral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
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
Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 
Levy G (1991) On some new and uncommon spiders from Israel (Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8: 227-232
Lissner J (2016c) A small study of the Corsican spider and pseudoscorpion fauna (Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones). Nieuwsbrief SPINED 36: 5-15
Olivares P, Sánchez-Álvarez J, Martínez M H (2025) Primera cita de Steatoda trianguloides Levy, 1991 (Araneae: Theridiidae) para España. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 46: 94-96
Türkeş T, Ballı Z D (2022) New record of a comb-footed spider of genus Steatoda (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Turkish araneo-fauna. Serket 18: 328-330
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
Zamani A, Dimitrov D, Weiss I, Alimohammadi S, Rafiei-Jahed R, Esyunin S L, Moradmand M, Chatzaki M, Marusik Y M (2020c) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part VII. Arachnology 18: 569-591
Updates
| 26-07-2025 | Image insert | |
| 26-07-2025 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 26-07-2024 | Image insert | |
| 23-07-2024 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 21-04-2022 | Image insert | |
| 21-04-2022 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 21-04-2022 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 02-11-2020 | Image insert | |
| 24-01-2020 | Image insert | |
| 28-12-2016 | Image insert | |
| 28-12-2016 | Distribution update | Detail |