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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Steatoda  Sundevall, 1833   19 species

Steatoda maura  (Simon, 1909)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008078

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Description
Male

Prosoma and sternum light brown to brown, lateral and posterior part granulated. Legs yellow to brown, somewhat darker near articulations. Opisthosoma dorsally white, with black band-like pattern, anterior part brownish, posterior part black and lateral part greyish with some dark markings, venter light, sometimes with dark markings.

Body length male: 6.0-8.8 mm
Female

Prosoma and sternum light brown to brown. Legs yellow to brown, somewhat darker near articulations.Opisthosoma blackish, anterior and anterior-lateral part surrounded by a broad creamy white band, lateral part with some white spots, venter usually light with 2 parallel black bars.

Body length female: 7.7-10.6 mm
Additional information

Webs are found under overhanging rocks, and on low bushes.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Mediterranean, Iran
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Females with egg sac in March and April.
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

species

male Chelicera
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

species

male Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

species

female Epigyne
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

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female Chelicera
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

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female Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982b)

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.

Greece   (no references) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (no references) |||
References

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522 pdf

Levy G, Amitai P (1982b) The cobweb spider genus Steatoda (Araneae, Theridiidae) of Israel and Sinai. Zoologica Scripta 11: 13-30 pdf

Wiehle H (1934) Zur Morphologie und Biologie einer paläarktischen Lithyphantes-Art (L. gerhardti sp. nov.). Zoologischer Anzeiger 106: 71-84 pdf

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

Updates
02-02-2018 Distribution update Detail