Steatoda dahli (Nosek, 1905)
Description
Prosoma brown, surface of male prosoma granulated particularly in lateral area. Sternum brown, surrounded with black. Legs brown, distal segments darker. Opisthosoma black, dorsum with variable number of white spots, a fine white lateral band, sometimes interrupted, venter with a white spot behind epigastric furrow and a marking in front of spinnerets.
Body length male: 4.3 mmBody length female: 5.0-6.3 mm
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levy 1998b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1998b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1998b)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Chelicera
(Levy 1998b)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1998b)
Epigyne
(Zamani et al. 2024a)
Epigyne
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Epigyne
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1998b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Zamani et al. 2024a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1998b)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1998b)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
Habitus, ventral view
(Van Keer et al. 2024)
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
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info 
Levy G (1998b) Araneae: Theridiidae. In Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida III. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem. , 228 pp.
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
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.
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 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2
Zamani A, Esyunin S L, Mikhailov K G, Marusik Y M (2024a) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part XI. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10: 285-309