Taxon details

Family: Theridiidae / Genus: Theridion

Theridion positivum Chamberlin, 1924

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008622]
  • Distribution: USA, Caribbean to Paraguay
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Theridion denisi Wunderlich, 1987, 1 m (37326-115)
  • Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Theridion denisi Wunderlich, 1987, 1 f (37290-115); 1 f, 1 j (37328-115); 4 f (37329-115); 2 f (37333-115); 1 f (37334-115)
Taxonomic references
Theridion positivum Chamberlin, 1924b: 636, f. 75 (Df).
Theridion detractum Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936b: 14, f. 27 (Df).
Theridion cybele Bryant, 1942a: 342, f. 39 (Df).
Chindellum detractum Archer, 1950: 12 (Tf from Theridion).
Theridion denisi Caporiacco, 1955: 332, f. 24a-c (Df).
Theridion positivum Levi, 1957a: 68, f. 237-239, 243-246 (f, Dm, S).
Theridion positivum Levi, 1963c: 565, f. 177-178 (mf).
References

Archer, A. F. (1950). A study of theridiid and mimetid spiders with descriptions of new genera and species. Museum Paper, Alabama Museum of Natural History 30: 1-40. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1942a). Notes on the spiders of the Virgin Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 89: 317-366. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1955). Estudios sobre los aracnidos de Venezuela. 2a parte: Araneae. Acta Biologica Venezuelica 1: 265-448. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1924b). The spider fauna of the shores and islands of the Gulf of California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 12: 561-694. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S. (1936b). New spiders from Texas. American Museum Novitates 863: 1-22. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1963c). American spiders of the genus Theridion (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 129: 481-589. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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