Steatoda triangulosa (Walckenaer, 1802)

Higher Taxonomy
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Steatoda
Characterisation
Troglophile
Distribution
Europe
Locus Typicus
Spilaio Koumelou
Region: Notio Aigaio / Regional unit: Rodos / Municipality: Rodos / Closest settlement: Archangelos
Distribution in caves of Greece
  • Spilaio Gravolithia, Brignoli 1977, Brignoli 1979a, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Beron 2016
    Region: Ionioi Nisoi / Regional unit: Kerkyra / Municipality: Kerkyra / Closest settlement: Spartyla
  • Spilaio Nychteridon, Brignoli 1984, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Beron 2016
    Region: Notio Aigaio / Regional unit: Karpathos / Municipality: Karpathos / Closest settlement: Pigadia
  • Spilaio Koumelou, Beron 2016
    Region: Notio Aigaio / Regional unit: Rodos / Municipality: Rodos / Closest settlement: Archangelos
  • Spilaio Glyfadas Dirou, Naumova et al. 2016
    Region: Peloponnisos / Regional unit: Lakonia / Municipality: Anatoliki Mani / Closest settlement: Pyrgos Dirou
IUCN Red List
NE - Not Evaluated
Greece's Red Data Book
NE - Not Evaluated
Protection status
  • There is no species-specific legal framework for protection.
Check Databases
Fauna Europea
GBIF
PESI
NCBI
Species references
  • Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
  • Bosmans, R. & Chatzaki, M. 2005. A catalogue of the spiders of Greece. A critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Newsletter Belg. Arachn. Soc., 20 (2): 1-124.
  • Brignoli, P. M. 1977. Ragni di Grecia X. Nuovi dati sulla Grecia continentale ed insulare. Rev. suisse Zool., 84 (4): 937-954.
  • Brignoli, P. M. 1979. Ragni di Grecia XI. Specie nuove o interessanti, cavernicole ed epigee. Rev. suisse Zool., 86 (1): 181-202.
  • Brignoli, P. M. 1984. Ragni di Grecia XII. Nuovi dati su varie famiglie (Araneae). Rev. suisse Zool., 91 (2): 281-321.
  • Naumova, M., Lazarov, S., Petrov, B. & Deltshev, C. 2016. New faunistic data on the cave-dwelling spiders in the Balkan Peninsula (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina, 7: 425-438.
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Steatoda triangulosa (Walckenaer, 1802). In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 13.02.2018, Accessed 18.04.2026