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Steatoda castanea

  • 1. Western Caspian University, Baku, Azerbaijan
  • 2. Institute of Zoology, Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan & Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland & Institute of Zoology, Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan & zamani. alireza 5 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8084 - 9666

Description

672. Steatoda castanea (Clerck, 1757)

Records. Baku; Ganja-Dashkasan: Dashkasan; Gazakh-Tovuz: Gazakh; Lankaran-Astara: unspecified district; Mountainous Shirvan: Gobustan; Shaki-Zagatala: unspecified district.

Distribution. Europe to the Russian Far East. Introduced to Canada.

References.

Teutana castanea: Atakishiev 1969: 318; Dunin 1984: 53.

Steatoda castanea: Dunin 1989: 34; Guseinov 1999: 6; Nuruyeva 2017: 308; Khasayeva 2021: 18, 20; Nuruyeva 2022: 14.

Notes

Published as part of Nuruyeva, Tamara & Zamani, Alireza, 2025, An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan, pp. 1-168 in Zootaxa 5680 (1) on page 127, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5680.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/16986041

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Clerck
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Theridiidae
Genus
Steatoda
Species
castanea
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Steatoda castanea (Clerck, 1757) sec. Nuruyeva & Zamani, 2025

References

  • Atakishiev, T. A. (1969) Spiders as symbionts of the honey bee. Uchenye zapiski Kazanskskogo Veterinarnogo Instituta, 105, 317-323. [in Russian]
  • Dunin, P. M. (1984) Fauna and ecology of spiders (Aranei) of Apsheron Peninsula (Azerbaijan SSR). In: Fauna i ekologiya paukoobraznykh [Fauna and ecology of arachnids]. Perm University, Perm, pp. 45-60. [in Russian]
  • Dunin, P. M. (1989) Fauna and altitudinal distribution of spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Azerbaijan part of the southern macroslope of the Caucasus Major. In: Lange, A. B. (Ed.), Fauna i ekologia paukov i skorpionov. Nauka, Moscow, pp. 31-39. [in Russian]
  • Guseinov, E. F. (1999) Spiders of Lenkoran Natural Region and Absheron Peninsula in Azerbaijan. Abstract of Ph. D. Thesis, Baku, 29 pp. [in Russian]
  • Nuruyeva, T. V. (2017) The fauna of soil - dwelling spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) in forest stands of dry-steppe low mountains of Gobustan, Azerbaijan. Euroasian Entomological Journal, 16 (4), 306-310. [in Russian]
  • Khasayeva, S. I. (2021) The fauna and ecology of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Ganja-Gazakh zone. Abstract of PhD Thesis, Baku, 26 pp.