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Desidae  Pocock, 1895 / Badumna  Thorell, 1890   2 species

Badumna insignis (L. Koch, 1872)

Description
Additional information

Non-established species in Europe

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Australia. Introduced to Japan, New Zealand
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Distribution List
United Kingdom   (Sherwood, 2025) |||
References

Forster R R (1970) The spiders of New Zealand. Part III. Otago Museum Bulletin 3: 1-184 pdf

Hickman V V (1967) Some common spiders of Tasmania. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 112 pp pdf

Okumura K, Ogata K, Ono H (2009) Amaurobiidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 129-131 pdf

Paquin P, Vink C, Dupérré N (2010) Spiders of New Zealand: annotated family key & species list. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand, 118 pp. pdf

Sherwood D (2025) Annotated checklist of imported non-native spider (Araneae) taxa recorded in the United Kingdom 1800–2024. Arthropoda Selecta 34: 121-160 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

Yaginuma T (1974) The spider fauna of Japan (IV). Faculty of Letters Revue, Otemon Gakuin University 8: 169-173 pdf

Updates
30-04-2025 Image insert
29-03-2025 Distribution insert Detail