Spiders of arid lands: The Ghardaïa region (Northern Sahara) with seven new records for Algeria
Author
Alioua, Youcef
Laboratoire de Valorisation et Conservation des Ecosystèmes Arides (LVCEA). Faculty of Natural, Life and Earth Sciences, University of Ghardaïa, BP 455, 47000 Ghardaïa, Algeria
Author
Bosmans, Robert
Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ledeganckstraat 35, B- 9000 Gent, Belgium
text
Zootaxa
2024
2024-08-26
5497
3
301
336
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.1
journal article
302049
10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.1
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Theridion melanostictum
O.
Pickard-Cambridge, 1876
Theridion melanostictum
;
Knoflach 1998: 559
;
Bosmans
& Van Keer 2012: 158
.
Material examined:
BERRIANE: Sidi Mbarek, hand collecting,
1 ♂
,
16.IV.2021
.
Previous records in
Algeria
:
Alger
,
M’sila
(
Knoflach 1998
;
Bosmans
& Van Keer 2012
).
Distribution:
Macaronesia, Mediterranean to
Egypt
,
India
, Central Asia,
China
,
Japan
. Introduced to
Poland
,
Canada
,
USA
, Galapagos Islands, Society Islands (
World Spider Catalog 2024
).