female P. tepidariorum

Parasteatoda is a genus of spiders in the Theridiidae (tangle web spider) family.

Description [edit]

Most species are mainly grayish brown to blackish brown, but some are bright orange.^[1]

Distribution [edit]

This is mostly an Old World genus, with many species found in Asia and New Guinea, but reaching into Europe. A single species, P. tepidariorum is found in the New World, but P. tepidariorum australis can also be found in New Guinea, Myanmar and Pakistan.

Taxonomy [edit]

Many species in this genus were moved from Achaearanea during a major revision in 2008.^[2]

Name [edit]

The genus name is combined from Ancient Greek para "beside, near" and the theridiid genus Steatoda. The Japanese name for this genus is O-himogumo zoku ("thread silk spider family").^[1]

Species [edit]

female P. japonica

male P. japonica

female P. lunata

• Parasteatoda angulithorax (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — Russia, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
• Parasteatoda asiatica (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — China, Korea, Japan
• Parasteatoda brookesiana (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) — India, Philippines
• Parasteatoda campanulata (Chen, 1993) — China
• Parasteatoda camura (Simon, 1877) — Philippines, New Guinea, Solomon Islands
• Parasteatoda celsadomina (Zhu, 1998) — China
• Parasteatoda cingulata (Zhu, 1998) — China
• Parasteatoda culicivora (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — China, Japan
• Parasteatoda daliensis (Zhu, 1998) — China
• Parasteatoda decorata (L. Koch, 1867) — Krakatau, New Guinea, Queensland
• Parasteatoda ducta (Zhu, 1998) — China
• Parasteatoda ferrumequina (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — China, Korea, Japan
• Parasteatoda galeiforma (Zhu, Zhang & Xu, 1991) — China
• Parasteatoda gui (Zhu, 1998) — China
• Parasteatoda hammeni (Chrysanthus, 1963) — New Guinea
• Parasteatoda japonica (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan
• Parasteatoda jinghongensis (Zhu, 1998) — China
• Parasteatoda kaindi (Levi, Lubin & Robinson, 1982) — New Guinea
• Parasteatoda kompirensis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — China, Korea, Japan
• Parasteatoda lanyuensis (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000) — Taiwan
• Parasteatoda longiducta (Zhu, 1998) — China
• Parasteatoda lunata (Clerck, 1757) — Palearctic
  • Parasteatoda lunata serrata (Franganillo, 1930) — Cuba
• Parasteatoda mundula (L. Koch, 1872) — India to New Caledonia
  • Parasteatoda mundula papuana (Chrysanthus, 1963) — New Guinea
• Parasteatoda oculiprominens (Saito, 1939) — China, Korea, Japan
• Parasteatoda oxymaculata (Zhu, 1998) — China
• Parasteatoda polygramma (Kulczynski, 1911) — New Guinea
• Parasteatoda quadrimaculata (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000) — Taiwan
• Parasteatoda ryukyu (Yoshida, 2000) — Japan, Ryukyu Islands
• Parasteatoda simulans (Thorell, 1875) — Palearctic
• Parasteatoda songi (Zhu, 1998) — China
• Parasteatoda subtabulata (Zhu, 1998) — China
• Parasteatoda subvexa (Zhu, 1998) — China
• Parasteatoda tabulata (Levi, 1980) — Holarctic
• Parasteatoda tepidariorum (C. L. Koch, 1841) — Americas
  • Parasteatoda tepidariorum australis (Thorell, 1895) — New Guinea, Myanmar, Pakistan
• Parasteatoda tesselata (Keyserling, 1884) — Mexico to Paraguay, New Guinea, Pakistan
• Parasteatoda transipora (Zhu & Zhang, 1992) — China
• Parasteatoda triangula (Yoshida, 1993) — Singapore, Java, Bali
• Parasteatoda valoka (Chrysanthus, 1975) — New Guinea, New Britain
• Parasteatoda vervoorti (Chrysanthus, 1975) — New Guinea
• Parasteatoda wau (Levi, Lubin & Robinson, 1982) — New Guinea

Notes [edit]

References [edit]

• Yoshida, Hajime (2008): A revision of the genus Achaearanea (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica 57(1): 37-40. PDF
• Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.

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