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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Platnickina  Koçak & Kemal, 2008   3 species

Platnickina adamsoni (Berland, 1934)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007290

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Description
Additional information

Non-established species in Europe (Nentwig, 2015: sub P. mneon)

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): USA, Caribbean, South America. Introduced to St. Helena, Ascension Is., Ghana, South Africa, Seychelles, Indonesia (Sumatra), China, Korea, Japan, Pacific Is.
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Saaristo 2006)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levi 1967)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Yoshida 2001b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ono 2011)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ono 2011)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Baert et al. 2023)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Baert et al. 2023)

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male Apical part of bulbus, lateral view
(Saaristo 2006)

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male Tip of pedipalp, prolateral view
(Ono 2011)

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male Embolic division, ventral view
(Saaristo 2006)

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male Cymbium, ventral view
(Saaristo 2006)

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male Sternum
(Saaristo 2006)

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male Chelicera, frontal view
(Saaristo 2006)

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male Habitus, lateral view
(Saaristo 2006)

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male Habitus, dorsal view
(Ono 2011)

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female Epigyne
(Saaristo 2006)

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female Epigyne
(Levi 1967)

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female Epigyne
(Yoshida 2001b)

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female Epigyne
(Ono 2011)

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female Epigyne
(Baert et al. 2023)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Saaristo 2006)

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female Vulva, lateral view
(Saaristo 2006)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levi 1967)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Yoshida 2001b)

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female Habitus, ventral view
(Levi 1967)

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female Habitus, dorsal view
(Ono 2011)

Distribution List
Germany   (Schmidt, 1971) |||
References

Baert L, Maelfait J-P, Desender K, Hendrickx F, Dekoninck W, Berthet M, Bouckaert K, Caudron J, Leclercq M (2023) Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188 pdf

Levi H W (1967) Cosmopolitan and pantropical species of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae). Pacific Insects 9: 175-186 pdf

Nentwig W (2015) Introduction, establishment rate, pathways and impact of spiders alien to Europe. Biological Invasions 17: 2757-2778 pdf

Ono H (2011) Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Memoirs of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo 47: 435-470 pdf

Saaristo M I (2006) Theridiid or cobweb spiders of the granitic Seychelles islands (Araneae, Theridiidae). Phelsuma 14: 49-89 pdf

Schmidt G (1971) Mit Bananen eingeschleppte Spinnen. Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 17: 387-433 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Yoshida H (2001b) A revision of the Japanese genera and species of the subfamily Theridiinae (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica 50: 157-181 pdf

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