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Parasteatoda

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Parasteatoda is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1946.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyTheridiidae
Observations recorded24,915

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
78
With media
2
Family
Theridiidae
Collections
USNM, FMNH, SDNHM, UNM, AM, QVMAG
Recorded in
Costa Rica, United States, Ecuador, Mexico, Australia

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Theridiidae
Image
Achaearanea.ryukyu.female.2.-.tanikawa.jpg
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Commons category
Parasteatoda
taxon name
Parasteatoda
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Parasteatoda
Commons gallery
Parasteatoda
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
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  • Description
  • Species
  • Species
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Parasteatoda is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1946.

==Name== The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "para-" (), meaning "near" or "next to", and the theridiid genus Steatoda.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parasteatoda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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