Taxon details


Theridula gonygaster (Simon, 1873)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2021-08-02
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008810]
  • Distribution: Central and South America, Caribbean. Introduced to Europe, Congo, Madagascar, Seychelles, Georgia, India, China, Japan
Type deposit provide information
  • It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France
Taxonomic references
Theridium gonygaster Simon, 1873a: 108, pl. 2, f. 24 (Dmf).
Chrysso nivipictus Butler, 1883: 764, pl. 57, f. 1 (Df).
Theridula triangularis Keyserling, 1886b: 30, pl. 11, f. 149 (Df).
Theridula quinqueguttata Keyserling, 1886b: 31, pl. 11, f. 150 (Df).
Mesopneustes nigrovittata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894a: 126, pl. 17, f. 3-4 (Dm).
Theridula tricornis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896a: 208, pl. 25, f. 1 (Dj).
Theridula nigrovittata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 392, pl. 37, f. 8 (Dm).
Theridula opulenta Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 189, f. 33-36 (mf, misidentified).
Theridula opulenta albomaculata Franganillo, 1936b: 79, f. 38 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054685].
Theridula regia Gertsch & Archer, 1942: 2, f. 10 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054686].
Theridula gonygaster Levi, 1954c: 340, f. 18-22 (mf, removed from S of T. opulenta, S of Theridula opulenta albomaculata and T. regia).
Theridula gonygaster Levi, 1967c: 176, f. 5-8 (mf).
Theridula gonygaster Brignoli, 1969c: 262, f. 2-3, 6 (f).
Theridula gonygaster Roberts, 1983: 227, f. 36-37 (mf).
Theridula gonygaster Chikuni, 1989b: 40, f. 50 (f).
Theridula gonygaster Zhu, 1998: 75, f. 43A-D (mf).
Theridula gonygaster Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 148, f. 83H-J (mf).
Theridula gonygaster Melic, 2000b: 49, f. 1-4 (f).
Theridula gonygaster Yoshida, 2001c: 178, f. 79-82 (mf).
Theridula gonygaster Yoshida, 2003a: 116, f. 301-304 (mf).
Theridula gonygaster Trotta, 2005: 175, f. 456-457 (mf).
Theridula gonygaster Saaristo, 2006: 85, f. 97-99 (mf).
Theridula gonygaster Wunderlich, 2008b: 397, f. 598-603 (mf).
Theridula gonygaster Yoshida, 2009b: 384, f. 264-266 (mf).
Theridula gonygaster Saaristo, 2010: 274, f. 37.141-144 (mf).
Theridula gonygaster Kostanjšek, 2010: 27, f. 1a-b (f).
Theridula gonygaster Le Peru, 2011: 487, f. 858 (mf).
Theridula gonygaster Yin et al., 2012: 423, f. 189a-e (mf).
Theridula gonygaster Lecigne, 2018b: 77, f. 11J (m).
Theridula gonygaster Vanuytven, 2021: 42, 283, f. A.30a-b, B.313-314 (m).
Theridula gonygaster Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2021a: 72, f. A-F, 2 (f).
References

Brignoli, P. M. (1969c). Notizie sui Theridiidae della Calabria. Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 16: 261-269. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Butler, A. G. (1883). On some new or little known spiders from Madagascar. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 50(4, 1882): 763-768, pl. 57. [published in April 1883, after Duncan, 1937] doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1883.tb02795.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chikuni, Y. (1989b). Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan. Kaisei-sha Publishing Co., Tokyo, 310 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Franganillo B., P. (1936b). Arácnidos recogidos durante el verano de 1934 (Prosigue). Revista Belen 1936(57-58): 75-82. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. & Archer, A. F. (1942). Descriptions of new American Theridiidae. American Museum Novitates 1171: 1-16. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1886b). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 2, 1-295. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kostanjšek, R. (2010). A contribution to the Slovenian spider fauna – I. Natura Sloveniae 12(2): 23-33. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S. (2018b). Récits de chasses aranéologiques récentes dans plusieurs départements de France. Redécouverte de Philodromus buchari Kubcová, 2004 (Araneae: Philodromidae) et confirmation de la présence de Theridion harmsi Wunderlich, 2011 (Araneae: Theridiidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 33(2): 59-99. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1954c). The spider genus Theridula in North and Central America and the West Indies (Araneae: Theridiidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 73(4): 331-343. doi:10.2307/3223578 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1967c). Cosmopolitan and pantropical species of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae). Pacific Insects 9: 175-186. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Melic, A. (2000b). Theridula gonygaster (Simon, 1873) en España (Araneae: Theridiidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 1: 49-50. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1930a). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 159-356. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1894a). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 121-144. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1896a). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 161-224. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 313-424. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1983). Spiders of the families Theridiidae, Tetragnathidae and Araneidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Aldabra atoll. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(3): 217-291. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1983.tb00099.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2006). Theridiid or cobweb spiders of the granitic Seychelles islands (Araneae, Theridiidae). Phelsuma 14: 49-89. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sekhar, R. & Sunil Jose, K. (2021a). First record of two Theridula Emerton, 1882 species (Aranaea: Theridiidae) from India. In: Indu, M. S., Sebastian, H. & Joseph, P. (eds.) Modern trends in biological research. Vimala College, Thrissur, India, pp. 71-74. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1873a). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. (2e mémoire). Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 5(8): 1-174, pl. 1-3. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Trotta, A. (2005). Introduzione al ragni italiani (Arachnida Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 83: 3-178. doi:10.4081/memorieSEI.2004.3 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Vanuytven, H. (2021). The Theridiidae of the World. A key to the genera with their diagnosis and a study of the body length of all known species. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society 35(Supplement): 1-363. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2008b). On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 140-469, 792-794, 796-800, 803, 819-859. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha, 1590 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (2001c). A revision of the Japanese genera and species of the subfamily Theridiinae (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica 50: 157-181. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (2003a). The spider family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Japan. Arachnological Society of Japan, 224 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (2009b). Uloboridae, Theridiidae, Ctenidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 142-147, 356-393, 467-468. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S. (1998). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing, 436 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2021-08-02 New taxonomic reference entry Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2021a n/a
2021-08-02 Species distribution update Sekhar & Sunil Jose, 2021a n/a (Old value)
2021-02-15 New taxonomic reference entry Vanuytven, 2021 n/a
2018-09-23 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, 2018b n/a
2016-11-22 New taxonomic reference entry Kostanjšek, 2010 n/a