Parasteatoda tesselata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Araneoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Theridiidae
Subfamilia: Theridiinae
Genus: Parasteatoda
Species: Parasteatoda tesselata

Name

Parasteatoda tesselata (Keyserling, 1884)

Type locality: Nancho [?=Cajamaica], Peru

Holotype ♀: PAN

Synonyms

• Theridion tesselatum Keyserling, 1884
• Theridion picadoi Banks, 1909
• Achaearanea terex Levi, 1959
• Achaearanea tesselata — Levi, 1959
• Parasteatoda tesselata — Yoshida, 2008

References

• Keyserling, E. 1884. Die Spinnen Amerikas II. Theridiidae. Nürnberg, 1: 1–222. [40, pl. 2, f. 27 (D♀)]
• Banks, N. 1909. Arachnida from Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 61: 194–234. [204]
• Levi, H. W. 1959. The spider genera Achaearanea, Theridion and Sphyrotinus from Mexico, Central America and the West Indies (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 121: 57–163. [74, f. 52 (D♂); 76, f. 70-71; 76, f. 57-60]
• Levi, H. W. 1963. American spiders of the genus Achaearanea and the new genus Echinotheridion (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 129: 187–240. [232]