Steatoda triangulosa (Walckenaer, 1802)

Nadolny, Anton A. & Turbanov, Ilya S., 2025, A review of cave spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Crimean Mountains, with descriptions of two new species, ZooKeys 1230, pp. 37-80 : 37-80

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1230.137029

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14976118

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scientific name

Steatoda triangulosa (Walckenaer, 1802)
status

 

Steatoda triangulosa (Walckenaer, 1802) View in CoL

Material examined.

1 ♀ ( TNU 10259/2 ), Crimea, Sevastopol, nr Balaklava, Aya Cape Mt. Range, Kala-Fatlar Mt., Izumrudnaya Сave , 20. III. 2016, O. V. Kukushkin leg. 1 ♀ ( TNU 10287/5 ), Crimea, nr Sevastopol, Tshernaya River canyon, entrance to Tshernoretshenskaya Cave , 3. VI. 2021, I. S. Turbanov, A. A. Nadolny leg.

Distribution.

Cosmopolite ( Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015; Nentwig et al. 2024).

Records from the Crimean caves.

Map (Fig. 17 A View Figure 17 – white circle). Izumrudnaya Cave on Kala-Fatlar Mt. of the Aya Cape Mt. Range and Tshernoretshenskaya Cave nr Sevastopol (present data).

Ecology.

A troglophile and synanthropic species ( Nentwig et al. 2024). In Crimea, it has been recorded everywhere as a synanthropic, except for the southern coast where it occurs in natural habitats ( Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015). In the Crimean caves, the ecological association of S. triangulosa remains unclear. Since we have collected only two specimens from the entrances of Tshernoretshenskaya and Izumrudnaya caves, it is likely to be a subtroglophile.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Theridiidae

Genus

Steatoda