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Parasteatoda tesselata (Keyserling, 1884)

female dorsal view

female lateral view

female ventral view

male dorsal view

male lateral view

male ventral view

Old names and synonyms

Achaearanea mundula
Achaearanea picadoi

Achaearanea terex
Achaearanea tesselata
Theridion picadoi
Theridion tesselatum

Distribution

Mexico to Paraguay, New Guinea, Pakistan

Establishment status in New Zealand

Not established

Links to:

- taxonomic page;
- image gallery (female/male).

References

Levi HW 1967. Cosmopolitan and pantropical species of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae). Pacific Insects 9: 175-186.

Platnick NI 2013. The world spider catalog, version 14.0. American Museum of Natural History, online at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html DOI: 10.5531/db.iz.0001.

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