Nearctic States & Provinces: AB CO MA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/7332
Crustulina sticta (O. P.-Cambridge, 1861)
FAMILY: THERIDIIDAE Sundevall, 1833
Genus: Crustulina Menge, 1868
Species: Crustulina sticta (O. P.-Cambridge, 1861)
Author of this page: Hancock, John (Page complete and awaiting review)
General Comments: This species is often found in leaf litter and deep within grass tussocks. The web can also be observed attached to the sides of large rocks. The web is a smaller version of that of Steatoda spp. (Hancock, pers. obs.).
Common Names
Family Common Name:
cobweb weavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: Holarctic
Nearctic States & Provinces:
AB CO MA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
space web builders
‡Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280.
Recorded Habitats:
Leaf litter, under boards and stones, moist places, fir needles, meadows, prairies, grass, shrubs. Has also been collected among cobble-stones close to rivers and in grassy fields (Hancock, pers. obs.).
Life & Natural History:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
Credit: Hancock, John
Details About Males
Description:
Carapace a dark brown covered with small tubercles which are the bases of fine hairs. Legs a uniform orange. Abdomen a red-brown with a yellow T-shaped mark towards the anterior end, also two pairs of red impressed spots or sigillum.
Male Dimensions:
A+B = 2.2 mm
A = 1.1 mm
C = 0.92 mm
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
Carapace a dark brown covered with small tubercles which are the bases of fine hairs. Legs a uniform orange. Abdomen a red-brown with a yellow T-shaped mark towards the anterior end, also two pairs of red impressed spots or sigillum.
Female Dimensions:
A+B = 2.7 mm
A = 1.6 mm
C = 1.04 mm
Image of Epigynum:
Credit: Hancock, John
Descriptions Source:
Levi, H. W. 1957. The spider genera Crustulina and Steatoda in North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 117: 367-424.
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Crustulina sticta O. P.-Cambridge 1861 |
| Theridion stictum O. P.-Cambridge 1861 |
| Theridion stictum Blackwall 1864 |
| Theridion stictum O. P.-Cambridge 1871 |
| Steatoda sticta Thorell 1873 |
| Steatoda rugosa Thorell 1875 |
| Steatoda sticta O. P.-Cambridge 1879 |
| Crustulina rugosa Simon 1881 |
| Crustulina sticta Simon 1881 |
| Crustulina rugosa Chyzer & Kulczynski 1894 |
| Crustulina borealis Banks 1900 |
| Crustulina pallipes Banks 1906 |
| Crustulina sticta Kaston 1948 |
| Crustulina sticta Locket & Millidge 1953 |
| Crustulina sticta Levi 1957 |
| Crustlina sticta Ohno & Yaginuma 1967 |
| Crustulina sticta Yaginuma 1971 |
| Crustulina sticta Palmgren 1974 |
| Crustulina rugosa Pakhorukov & Utochkin 1977 |
| Crustulina sticta Levy & Amitai 1979 |
| Crustulina sticta Kim 1985 |
| Crustulina sticta Roberts 1985 |
| Crustulina sticta Yaginuma 1986 |
| Crustulina sticta Holm 1987 |
| Crustulina sticta Chikuni 1989 |
| Crustulina sticta Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Crustulina sticta Knoflach 1994 |
| Crustulina sticta Roberts 1995 |
| Crustulina sticta Kupryjanowicz 1997 |
| Crustulina sticta Levy 1998 |
| Crustulina sticta Roberts 1998 |
| Crustulina sticta Zhu 1998 |
| Crustulina sticta Song, Zhu & Chen 1999 |
| Crustulina sticta Song, Zhu & Chen 2001 |
| Crustulina sticta Yoshida 2001 |
| Crustulina sticta Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
| Crustulina sticta Yoshida 2003 |
| Crustulina sticta Almquist 2005 |
Taxonomic References†
Almquist, S. 2005. Swedish Araneae, part 1: families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Syst. Ecol., Suppl. 62: 1-284.
Banks, N. 1906. Descriptions of new American spiders. Proc. ent. Soc. Wash. 7: 94-100.
Banks, N. 1900. Some new North American spiders. Canad. Ent. 32: 96-102.
Blackwall, J. 1864. A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. London, Ray Society, 2: 175-384.
Cambridge, O. P.-. 1879. The spiders of Dorset. Araneidea. Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist Field Club 1: 1-235.
Cambridge, O. P.-. 1871. Descriptions of some British spiders new to science, with a notice of others, of which some are now for the first time recorded as British species. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 27: 393-464.
Cambridge, O. P.-. 1861. Descriptions of ten new species of spiders lately discovered in England. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (3) 7: 428-441.
Chikuni, Y. 1989. Pictorial Encyclopedia of Spiders in Japan. Kaisei-sha Publ. Co., Tokyo, 310 pp.
Chyzer, C. & W. Kulczynski. 1894. Araneae Hungariae. Budapest, 2: 1-151.
Heimer, S. & W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp.
Holm, Å. 1987. Några för Sverige nya spindelarter (Araneae). Ent. Tidskr. 108: 159-165.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Kim, J. P. 1985. Two unrecorded spiders from Korea (Araneae, Metathelae). Korean Arachnol. 1(1): 17-22.
Knoflach, B. 1994. Zur Genitalmorphologie und Biologie der Crustulina-Arten Europas (Arachnida: Araneae, Theridiidae). Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges. 67: 327-346.
Kupryjanowicz, J. 1997. Spiders of the Biebrza National Park - species new and rare to Poland. Proc. 16th Europ. Coll. Arachnol., pp. 183-194.
Levi, H. W. 1957. The spider genera Crustulina and Steatoda in North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 117: 367-424.
Levy, G. 1998. Araneae: Theridiidae. In auna Palaestina, Arachnida III. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem.
Levy, G. & P. Amitai. 1979. The spider genus Crustulina (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Israel. Israel J. Zool. 28: 114-130.
Locket, G. H. & A. F. Millidge. 1953. British spiders. Ray Society, London, 2: 1-449.
Ohno, M. & T. Yaginuma. 1967. The spiders from the island Awashima, Niigata, Japan. J. Tokyo Univ., gen. Educ. (nat. Sci.) 8: 31-38.
Pakhorukov, N. M. & A. S. Utochkin. 1977. Four new for the USSR spider (Aranei) species from the northern Urals. Vest. Zool. 1977(4): 91-92.
Palmgren, P. 1974. Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. V. Theridiinae und Nesticidae. Fauna Fenn. 26: 1-54.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Roberts, M. J. 1998. Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.
Roberts, M. J. 1995. Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.
Roberts, M. J. 1985. The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England.
Simon, E. 1881. Les arachnides de France. Paris, 5: 1-180.
Song, D. X., M. S. Zhu & J. Chen. 2001. The Fauna of Hebei, China: Araneae. Hebei Science Technol. Publ. House, 510 pp.
Song, D. X., M. S. Zhu & J. Chen. 1999. The Spiders of China. Hebei Sci. Technol. Publ. House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp.
Thorell, T. 1875. Diagnoses Aranearum Europaearum aliquot novarum. Tijdschr. Ent. 18: 81-108.
Thorell, T. 1875. Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongl. Svenska. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 13(5): 1-203.
Thorell, T. 1873. Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part IV. Uppsala, pp. 375-645.
Yaginuma, T. 1986. Spiders of Japan in color (new ed.). Hoikusha Publ. Co., Osaka.
Yaginuma, T. 1971. Spiders of Japan in colour (enlarged and revised edition). Hoikusha, Osaka, 197 pp.
Yoshida, H. 2003. The spider family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Japan. Arachnological Society of Japan, 224 pp.
Yoshida, H. 2001. The spider genera Robertus, Enoplognatha, Steatoda and Crustulina (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan. Acta arachn. Tokyo 50: 31-48.
Zhu, M. S. 1998. Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing, xi + 436 pp.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/THERIDIIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Crustulina Menge, 1868‡‡
C. altera Gertsch & Archer, 1942 ...............USA
C. guttata (Wider, 1834) ...............Palearctic
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution
Page Reference:
Hancock, John. submitted. Taxonomic and natural history description of FAM: THERIDIIDAE, Crustulina sticta (O. P.-Cambridge, 1861).
In: The Nearctic Spider Database. David P. Shorthouse (editor). World Wide Web electronic publication. Direct link: http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/7332 (Accessed: 7/25/2008 10:30:39 AM).
Author Email Address: spidermanjohn@shaw.ca
Text Last Modified: 2006-03-05T01:29:53Z