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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cobweb Spiders (Theridiidae)

Family Theridiidae - Cobweb Spiders

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cobweb Spiders (Theridiidae) » Steatoda » Steatoda nobilis

A large European combfoot spider, Steatoda nobilis (Thorell 1875) (Araneae: Theridiidae), newly established in Ventura County

By Richard Vetter & Michael Rust
The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 88(1): 92-97, 2012

Note that the title was cut off, it should say "California" at the end. PDF versions of Pan-Pacific Entomologist publications from 2007 forward are available through BioOne.org, but you have to log in via your institution/library. If you need this paper for personal use, I'm sure the authors would share a copy, or you can email me as well.

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Contributed by Mandy Howe on 24 February, 2014 - 2:28am

The theridiid spider Steatoda nobilis (Thorell, 1875) in Britain

By R. Snazell & D. Jones
Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9(5): 164-167, 1993

All BAS papers are available online to subscribers — http://wiki.britishspiders.org.uk/

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Contributed by Mandy Howe on 24 February, 2014 - 2:25am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cobweb Spiders (Theridiidae) » Dipoena

Spiders of the genus Dipoena from America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae)

By H.W. Levi
American Museum Novitates, No. 1647, 1-39, 1953

Available online here.

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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 17 October, 2011 - 1:21pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cobweb Spiders (Theridiidae) » Chrosiothes

A NEW CHROSIOTHES SPIDER FROM WEST VIRGINIA

By William H . Piel
The Journal of Arachnology, 1994

22:181—184
Link to paper here (PDF warning): http://www.americanarachnology.org/joa_free/joa_v22_n3/joa_v22_p181.pdf

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Contributed by Laura P. on 22 November, 2014 - 6:50pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cobweb Spiders (Theridiidae) » Thymoites

A new and first troglobitic spider from Arizona (Thymoites, Theridiidae)

By Vincent D. Roth
Texas Mem. Mus., Speleol. Monogr., 3: 123-126., 1992

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Describes what is apparently the only troglobitic member of Theridiidae - Thymoites minero.

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Contributed by Mandy Howe on 4 February, 2016 - 8:20am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cobweb Spiders (Theridiidae) » Thymoites

The spider genus Thymoites in America (Araneae: Theridiidae)

By Herbert W. Levi
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 130: 445-471, 1964

Full Text (at Biodiversity Heritage Library)

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Contributed by Mandy Howe on 8 March, 2014 - 2:36am

Comparative Biology of American Black Widow Spiders

By B. J. Kaston
San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. Trans. 16(3): 33-82, 1970

PDF with detailed descriptions, drawings & a few photos.

Link to http://archive.org.

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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 13 September, 2012 - 8:15am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cobweb Spiders (Theridiidae) » Steatoda

Evidence for displacement of a North American spider, Steatoda borealis by the European species S. bipunctata

By Martin Nyffeler, C. D. Dondale, J. H. Redner
Canadian Journal of Zoology, 1986

Abstract can be read here.

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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 12 February, 2012 - 9:55am

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