Theridion wiehlei Schenkel, 1938
Description
Male
Prosoma 1.4-1.5 mm long. Characters as in female.
Body length male: 2.5 mmFemale
Prosoma yellowish, darker on margin, with a triangular brown patch near fovea. Prosoma 1.6 mm long. Sternum uniform dark red-brown. Legs yellowish, with dark annulations. Opisthosoma dorsally whitish, with an indistinct dentate median band, bordered with blackish, ventrally brown, with a small white spot on each side of spinnerets, and a pair of white blotches near epigastric furrow.
Body length female: 2.9-3.1 mmAdditional information
Mediterranean species, sporadically in rocky heathland in Austria, open areas in pine forest.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Denis 1945a)
Median apophysis, prolateral view
(Denis 1945a)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1937)
Epigyne
(Denis 1945a)
Epigyne
(Deltshev 1992a)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1937)
Vulva, ventral view
(Breitling 2020)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Breitling 2020)
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
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Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362
Danflous S, Déjean S, Guerbaa K, Jacquet C, Lecigne S, Montagne D, Montardi Y, Villepoux O (2020b) De araneis Galliae IV. Actualisation du référentiel des araignées de France – première note. Espèces absentes de France ou mises en nomen dubium. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 5: 10-32
Deltshev C D (1992a) A critical review of family Theridiidae (Araneae) in Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 43: 13-21
Denis J (1945a) Sur quelques Theridion appartenant à la faune de France. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 49: 111-117
Hänggi A (2003) Nachträge zum "Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen" - 3. Neunachweise von 1999 bis 2002 und Nachweise synanthroper Spinnen Arachnologische Mitteilungen 26: 36-54
Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
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
Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Wiehle H (1937) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VIII. 26: Familie Theridiidae oder Haubennetzspinnen (Kugelspinnen). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 119-222
WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2