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

Species Crustulina sticta

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Internet References
Spider in the kitchen - Crustulina sticta spider - Crustulina sticta - female Crustulina cf. sticta - Crustulina sticta - male Crustulina cf. sticta - Crustulina sticta - male Spider - Crustulina sticta Spider - Crustulina sticta Crustulina sticta - female Potential Linyphiidae - Crustulina sticta - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Theridiidae (Cobweb Spiders)
Genus Crustulina
Species sticta (Crustulina sticta)
Explanation of Names
Author of the name: O. P. Cambridge. Year first published: 1861.

Crustulina comes from Latin crustulum (a little crusty cake) plus a diminutive suffix -ina, so: a VERY little crusty cake. sticta is from Greek stiktos, punctured.
Identification
The color is variable, even in other photos on the Jorgen Lissner site. Also, Washington specimens (for example) average considerably darker than the eastern-states material in these 3 BugGuide photos. Levi in his taxonomic revision says the color can range from white to dark brown and can be with or without a Steatoda-like pattern. ~ Rod Crawford
Range
The species is Holarctic and in N.America from Labrador to Alaska south to southernmost TX and CA, but seems to be absent from the SE states. ~ Rod Crawford
Internet References
~ www.galerie-insecte.org - Images of male and female.
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 28 August, 2009 - 9:21am
Additional contributions by pfeiffer
Last updated 17 April, 2012 - 3:21am

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