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Comb-footed Spiders
Theridiidae
Theridiidae is a large family of spiders, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders. Members of Theridiidae are the most common arthropods found in human dwellings throughout the world. The diverse, globally distributed family includes over 2,200 species in over 100 genera of three-dimensional space-web-builders. Theridiid spiders are entelegyne (have a genital plate in the female) araneomorph ecribellate (use sticky capture silk instead of woolly silk) spiders that often build tangle space...
19 branches of this family, most-observed first
Latrodectinae
subfamilyLatrodectinae
Theridiinae
subfamilyTheridiinae
Pholcommatinae
subfamilyPholcommatinae
Kleptoparasitic Spiders
subfamilyArgyrodinae
Hadrotarsinae
subfamilyHadrotarsinae
Spintharinae
subfamilySpintharinae
Anelosiminae
subfamilyAnelosiminae
Icona
genusIcona
Hetschkia
genusHetschkia
Gushangzao
genusGushangzao
Chorizopella
genusChorizopella
Tomoxena
genusTomoxena
Loricatheridion
genusLoricatheridion
Landoppo
genusLandoppo
Zercidium
genusZercidium
Glebych
genusGlebych
Knoflachia
genusKnoflachia
Gyro
genusGyro
Trust
genusTrust
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47371.