Steatoda capensis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Theridiidae
- Genus
- Steatoda
- Species
- Steatoda capensis
- Scientific Name
- Steatoda capensis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Steatoda capensis
Steatoda capensis is a spider originating from South Africa. Its common names include the black cobweb spider, brown house spider, cupboard spider and due to its similarities to the katipō spider it is commonly known as the false katipō in New Zealand.
Common throughout Southern Africa, it has been introduced into other countries and is now present in Australia and throughout New Zealand.
...Steatoda capensis in languages:
- English
- Brown House Spider
- English
- Cupboard Spider
- English
- False Katipo
- English
- Black Cobweb Spider
- English
- Common false button spider
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Steatoda adumbrata
- Steatoda aethiopica
- Steatoda alamosa
- Steatoda alboclathrata
- Steatoda albomaculata
- Steatoda ancora
- Steatoda ancorata
- Steatoda andina
- Steatoda apacheana
- Steatoda atascadera
- Steatoda atrocyanea
- Steatoda autumnalis
- Steatoda badia
- Steatoda bertkaui
- Steatoda bipunctata
- Steatoda borealis
- Steatoda capensis
- Steatoda carbonaria
- Steatoda caspia
- Steatoda castanea
- Steatoda chinchipe
- Steatoda cingulata
- Steatoda connexa
- Steatoda craniformis
- Steatoda dahli
- Steatoda diamantina
- Steatoda distincta
- Steatoda ephippiata
- Steatoda erigoniformis
- Steatoda fagei
- Steatoda fallax
- Steatoda felina
- Steatoda foravae
- Steatoda grandis
- Steatoda grossa
- Steatoda gui
- Steatoda hespera
- Steatoda hui
- Steatoda iheringi
- Steatoda incomposita
- Steatoda kiwuensis
- Steatoda kuytunensis
- Steatoda latifasciata
- Steatoda lawrencei
- Steatoda leonardi
- Steatoda lepida
- Steatoda linzhiensis
- Steatoda livens
- Steatoda longurio
- Steatoda mainlingensis
- Steatoda mainlingoides
- Steatoda marta
- Steatoda maura
- Steatoda mexicana
- Steatoda micans
- Steatoda minima
- Steatoda moerens
- Steatoda moesta
- Steatoda mormorata
- Steatoda morsitans
- Steatoda nahuana
- Steatoda nasata
- Steatoda ngipina
- Steatoda nigrimaculata
- Steatoda nigrocincta
- Steatoda niveosignata
- Steatoda nobilis
- Steatoda octonotata
- Steatoda palomara
- Steatoda panja
- Steatoda pardalia
- Steatoda paykulliana
- Steatoda pengyangensis
- Steatoda perakensis
- Steatoda perspicillata
- Steatoda picea
- Steatoda porteri
- Steatoda punctulata
- Steatoda quadrimaculata
- Steatoda quaesita
- Steatoda quinquenotata
- Steatoda retorta
- Steatoda rhombifera
- Steatoda rubrocalceolata
- Steatoda rufoannulata
- Steatoda sabulosa
- Steatoda sagax
- Steatoda saltensis
- Steatoda seriata
- Steatoda singoides
- Steatoda sordidata
- Steatoda speciosa
- Steatoda spina
- Steatoda subannulata
- Steatoda terastiosa
- Steatoda terebrui
- Steatoda tigrina
- Steatoda tortoisea
- Steatoda transversa
- Steatoda trianguloides
- Steatoda triangulosa
- Steatoda tristis
- Steatoda truncata
- Steatoda ulleungensis
- Steatoda uncata
- Steatoda variabilis
- Steatoda variata
- Steatoda variipes
- Steatoda vaulogeri
- Steatoda venator
- Steatoda wangi
- Steatoda wanshou
- Steatoda washona
- Steatoda xerophila
- Steatoda xishuiensis































































































































































