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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Rugathodes  Archer, 1950   4 species

Rugathodes aurantius  (Emerton, 1915)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008000

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Description
Male

Colouration as in females, but opisthosoma grey, dorsum with 2 black bands.

Body length male: 1.6-2 mm
Female

Prosoma yellow to dark brown. Sternum dark brown. Legs yellow-white. Opisthosoma: dorsum with white spots and black bands on each side, venter and lateral parts white.

Body length female: 1.7-2.4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Canada, USA
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levi 1957a)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levi 1957a)

species

male Chelicera, posterior view
(Levi 1957a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Levi 1957a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levi 1957a)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levi 1957a)

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.

Russia, Eastern   (Nesterkov et al., 2020) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) |||
References

Levi H W (1957a) The spider genera Enoplognatha, Theridion, and Paidisca in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 112: 1-124 pdf

Nesterkov A, Zolotarev M, Belskaya E, Tuneva T (2020) Arachnids (Araneae, Opiliones) from grass stand and forest litter in the Urals, Russia. Biodiversity Data Journal 8(e55242): 1-23 pdf

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 pdf

Updates
21-06-2024 Distribution insert Detail
21-06-2024 Distribution update Detail
28-04-2014 Datasheet update Detail
28-04-2014 Image insert