Steatoda grossa (C.L. Koch, 1838)

Higher Taxonomy
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Steatoda
Characterisation
Troglophile
Distribution
Eastern Palaearctic
Distribution in caves of Greece
  • Spilaio Agias Sofias (Kalamos), Brignoli 1979a, Brignoli 1979b, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Beron 2016
    Region: Attiki / Regional unit: Nisoi Attikis / Municipality: Kythira / Closest settlement: Kalamos
  • Spilaio Chonos Sarchou, Brignoli 1984, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Beron 2016
    Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Irakleio / Municipality: Malevizi / Closest settlement: Sarchos
  • Spilaio Kyklopa, Bosmans & Gavalas 2023
    Region: Notio Aigaio / Regional unit: Naxos / Municipality: Naxos & Mikres Kyklades / Closest settlement: Irakleia
  • Spilaio Agiou Galaktos, Beron 2016, Naumova et al. 2016
    Region: Voreio Aigaio / Regional unit: Chios / Municipality: Chios / Closest settlement: Agio Gala
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.
  • Bosmans R, Gavalas I. 2023. The spiders (Araneae) of the tiny Greek island Iraklia (Kiklades), with the descriptions of 5 new Harpactea species (Araneae: Dysderidae), 3 species new to Europe and 8 new to Greece. Parnassiana Archives 11 (Suppl. 1): 3-93
  • 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. 1979. Considérations zoogéographiques sur les Araignées cavernicoles de Grèce. Biol. gallo-hellen., 8: 223-236.
  • 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 grossa (C.L. Koch, 1838). 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 07.03.2026