Prosoma and sternum deep brown, distinctly granulated. Proximal segments of legs dark brown to almost black, distal segments yellowish orange. Opsthosoma purplish black, with 4 spots dorsally and 2-3 smaller spots above the spinnerets.
Body length male: 2.3-2.6 mmProsoma and sternum deep brown, smooth. Proximal segments of legs dark brown to almost black, distal segments yellowish orange. Opsthosoma purplish black, with 4 spots dorsally, 2-3 smaller spots above the spinnerets and 2 lateral spots.
Body length female: 2.3-3.1 mmJan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
"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.
Alioua & Bosmans (2024) Spiders of arid lands: the Ghardaïa region (northern Sahara) with seven new records for Algeria. Zootaxa 5497: 301-336
Bosmans R (2003) A checklist of the spiders of Tunisia, with description of a new species of Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Kaupia - Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 12: 89-109
Bosmans R, Hervé C (2021) Less is more: eight new synonyms in Mediterranean spiders (Araneae), with a new Pelecopsis species from Tunisia (Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 61: 58-64
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
Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019
Coşar İ, Danışman T (2022b) First record of the cobweb spider Steatoda erigoniformis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) in Turkey (Araneae, Theridiidae). Acta Zoologica Cypria 1: 10-14
Danışman T, Coşar İ (2022b) Turkocranum gen. n., a new genus of Liocranidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Turkey. Zoology in the Middle East 68: 73-80
Denis J (1952f) Quelques araignées de Basse-Égypte recueillies par M. B. Condé. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 76: 313-315
Levy G, Amitai P (1982b) The cobweb spider genus Steatoda (Araneae, Theridiidae) of Israel and Sinai. Zoologica Scripta 11: 13-30
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
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 (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2