Theridula

Theridula is a genus of cobweb spiders, found in many (mostly tropical) parts of the world. Species vary in size from 1 to 3.5 mm in length.^[1]

Theridula angula moving from one tree to another carrying the egg sac

Theridula
Female Theridula gonygaster from Okinawa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Theridula Emerton, 1882
Species
See text
Diversity
19 species

In females, the abdomen is wider than long, with a hump or horn on each side, and sometimes a posterior median horn.^[2][3] The pedipalp in males is simple, lacking a conductor or theridioid tegular apophysis.^[4][5]

Theridula spiders are frequently found on bushes or tall grass where they rest on the undersides of leaves near their webs.

Species

• Theridula albonigra Caporiacco, 1949 (Kenya)
  • Theridula albonigra vittata Caporiacco, 1949 (Kenya)
• Theridula angula Tikader, 1970 (India)
• Theridula casas Levi, 1954 (Mexico)
• Theridula emertoni Levi, 1954 (USA, Canada)
• Theridula faceta (O. P.-Cambridge, 1894) (Mexico, Guatemala)
• Theridula gonygaster (Simon, 1873) (Cosmopolitan)
• Theridula huberti Benoit, 1977 (St. Helena)
• Theridula iriomotensis Yoshida, 2001 (Japan)
• Theridula multiguttata Keyserling, 1896 (Brazil)
• Theridula nigerrima (Petrunkevitch, 1911) (Ecuador, Peru)
• Theridula opulenta (Walckenaer, 1842) (Cosmopolitan)
• Theridula perlata Simon, 1889 (Madagascar)
• Theridula puebla Levi, 1954 (Mexico, Panama)
• Theridula pulchra Berland, 1920 (East Africa)
• Theridula sexpupillata Mello-Leitão, 1941 (Brazil)
• Theridula swatiae Biswas, Saha & Raychaydhuri, 1997 (India)
• Theridula theriella Strand, 1907 (Madagascar)
• Theridula zhangmuensis Hu, 2001 (China)