Nearctic States & Provinces: QC CO OK SC
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/8537
Theridion murarium Emerton, 1882
FAMILY: THERIDIIDAE Sundevall, 1833
Genus: Theridion Walckenaer, 1805
Species: Theridion murarium Emerton, 1882
Common Names
Family Common Name:
cobweb weavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: North America
Nearctic States & Provinces:
QC CO OK SC
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:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
(images not yet available)
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Theridion murarium Emerton 1882 |
| Theridion murarium Keyserling 1884 |
| Theridion murarium Emerton 1902 |
| Theridion murarium Comstock 1940 |
| Theridion murarium Kaston 1945 |
| Theridion murarium Kaston 1948 |
| Allotheridion murarium Archer 1950 |
| Theridion murarium Levi 1957 |
| Theridion murarium Levi 1961 |
| Theridion murarium Levi & Levi 1962 |
| Theridion murarium Coddington 1990 |
| Theridion murarium Breene et al. 1993 |
| Theridion murarium Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Archer, A. F. 1950. A study of theridiid and mimetid spiders with descriptions of new genera and species. Mus. Pap. Ala Mus. nat. Hist. 30: 1-40.
Breene, R. G., D. A. Dean, M. Nyffeler & G. B. Edwards. 1993. Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, College Station, 115 pp.
Coddington, J. A. 1990. Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 496: 1-52.
Comstock, J. H. 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, xi + 727 pp.
Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Emerton, J. H. 1882. New England spiders of the family Theridiidae. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 6: 1-86.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Kaston, B. J. 1945. New Micryphantidae and Dictynidae with notes on other spiders. Am. Mus. Novit. 1292: 1-14.
Keyserling, E. 1884. Die Spinnen Amerikas II. Theridiidae. Nürnberg, 1: 1-222.
Levi, H. W. 1961. Evolutionary trends in the development of palpal sclerites in the spider family Theridiidae. J. Morph. 108: 1-10.
Levi, H. W. 1957. The spider genera Enoplognatha, Theridion, and Paidisca in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 112: 1-124.
Levi, H. W. & L. R. Levi. 1962. The genera of the spider family Theridiidae. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 127: 1-71.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
†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 Theridion Walckenaer, 1805‡‡
T. acutitarse Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. aeolium Levi, 1963 ...............USA
T. agrifoliae Levi, 1957 ...............USA, Canada
T. albidum Banks, 1895 ...............USA, Canada
T. arizonense Levi, 1957 ...............USA
T. australe Banks, 1899 ...............USA, Mexico, West Indies
T. betteni Wiehle, 1960 ...............Palearctic
T. californicum Banks, 1904 ...............USA, Canada
T. cameronense Levi, 1957 ...............USA, Mexico
T. campestratum Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. cheimatos Gertsch & Archer, 1942 ...............USA
T. cinctipes Banks, 1898 ...............USA, Mexico
T. cochise Levi, 1963 ...............USA
T. cowlesae Levi, 1957 ...............USA
T. cynicum Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936 ...............USA, Mexico
T. differens Emerton, 1882 ...............USA, Canada
T. dilutum Levi, 1957 ...............USA, Mexico
T. dividuum Gertsch & Archer, 1942 ...............USA
T. dulcineum Gertsch & Archer, 1942 ...............USA
T. ellicottense Dobyns & Bond, 1996 ...............USA
T. familiare O. P.-Cambridge, 1871 ...............Palearctic
T. flavonotatum Becker, 1879 ...............USA, Cuba
T. frondeum Hentz, 1850 ...............USA, Bahama Is.
T. geminipunctum Chamberlin, 1924 ...............USA, Mexico
T. gertschi Levi, 1959 ...............USA, Mexico
T. glaucescens Becker, 1879 ...............USA, Canada
T. goodnightorum Levi, 1957 ...............USA, Mexico
T. grallator Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. haleakalense Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. hemerobium Simon, 1914 ...............USA, Canada, Europe
T. hidalgo Levi, 1957 ...............USA, Mexico
T. impressum L. Koch, 1881 ...............Holarctic
T. intritum (Bishop & Crosby, 1926) ...............USA
T. istokpoga Levi, 1957 ...............USA to Panama
T. kauaiense Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. kawea Levi, 1957 ...............USA, Mexico
T. lawrencei Gertsch & Archer, 1942 ...............USA
T. leechi Gertsch & Archer, 1942 ...............USA, Canada
T. leviorum Gertsch & Riechert, 1976 ...............USA
T. llano Levi, 1957 ...............USA
T. mauiense Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. melanostictum O. P.-Cambridge, 1876 ...............Mediterranean, Aldabra, China, Japan, USA, Hispaniola
T. melanurum Hahn, 1831 ...............Holarctic, Azores
T. melinum Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. michelbacheri Levi, 1957 ...............USA
T. montanum Emerton, 1882 ...............USA, Canada, Alaska, Norway, Finland, Russia
T. morulum O. P.-Cambridge, 1898 ...............USA, Mexico
T. myersi Levi, 1957 ...............USA, Mexico, Jamaica
T. mystaceum L. Koch, 1870 ...............Palearctic
T. neomexicanum Banks, 1901 ...............USA, Canada
T. neshamini Levi, 1957 ...............USA
T. nigrovariegatum Simon, 1873 ...............Palearctic
T. ohlerti (Thorell, 1870) ...............Holarctic
T. ohlerti lundbecki (Sorensen, 1898) ...............Greenland
T. orlando (Archer, 1950) ...............USA
T. pennsylvanicum Emerton, 1913 ...............USA, Canada
T. perkinsi Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. petraeum L. Koch, 1872 ...............Holarctic
T. pictipes Keyserling, 1884 ...............USA
T. pictum (Walckenaer, 1802) ...............Holarctic
T. pinastri L. Koch, 1872 ...............Palearctic
T. positivum Chamberlin, 1924 ...............USA, West Indies to Paraguay
T. posticatum Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. praetextum Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. praetextum concolor Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. punctipes Emerton, 1924 ...............USA, Mexico
T. rabuni Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 ...............USA, Bahama Is.
T. saanichum Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947 ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
T. sardis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 ...............USA
T. sisyphium (Clerck, 1757) ...............Palearctic
T. submissum Gertsch & Davis, 1936 ...............USA, Mexico, Bahama Is., Jamaica
T. timpanogos Levi, 1957 ...............USA
T. transgressum Petrunkevitch, 1911 ...............USA, Mexico
T. varians Hahn, 1833 ...............Holarctic
T. yuma Levi, 1963 ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution