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Levi — Steatoda and Enoplognatha 
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Steatoda moesta (O. P. -Cambridge) 
Asagena moesta O. P. -Cambridge, 1896, Biologia Centrali-Americana, 
Araneidea, 1 : 209, pi. 25, fig. 4-, $ . Female type from Guatemala in the 
British Museum, Natural History. 
Steatoda moesta, Levi, 1957, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 117:3, p. 379, figs. 15-18, 
9 ,$. 
Distribution. Southern Mexico to southern Brazil. 
Additional Records. Venezuela: “Caracas, Tovar,” 1888 (E. 
Simon, MNHN). Peru. Hudnuco: 27 km N of Huanuco, Dec. 
1954 (E. I. Schlinger, E. S. Ross, CAS). San Martin: Tarapoto 
(MNHN); Moyobamba (MNHN). Brazil. Rio de Janeiro: 
Mencles (Eidmann, SMF) ; Teresopolis (MNHN). 
Steatoda erigoniformis (O. P.-Cambridge) , new combination 
Theridion erigon forme O. P.-Cambridge, 1872, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 
p. 284. Female, male syntypes from Jordan in the Hope Department of 
Entomology, Oxford, examined. 
Asaganella erigoniformis, Schenkel, 1937, Festschrift E. Strand, 3:381, fig. 
3, $ . 
Lithyphantcs septemmaculatus Keyserling, 1884, Die Spinnen Amerikas, 
2(1): 141, pi. 6, fig. 88, 9. Female syntypes from “Denver in Columbia” 
collected by Marx. (Marx’s labels are often wrong and the Denver type 
locality is undoubtedly an error). NEW SYNONYMY. 
Distribution. Cosmopolitan. Florida, Caribbean, Panama, Vene- 
zuela in America. Kaston (1948, Bull. Connecticut Geol. Nat. 
Hist. Surv. no. 70:79) reports a specimen from Connecticut. O. 
Kraus (in a letter) tells of a specimen from Japan in the Senckenberg 
Museum. It also has been found in the Near East. 
Additional Records. Panama Canal Zone: Gamboa, 7 Jan. 1958, 
c? (A. M. Chickering) . British West Indies: Antigua: St. John, 
1 95 5 (A. M. Nadler, AMNH ) . Venezuela. Aragua .-Tovar, 1888, 
9 (E. Simon, MNHN). Carabobo: San Esteban, 1888, 9 $ (E. 
Simon, MNHN). 
Steatoda triangulosa (Walckenaer) 
Aranea triangulosa Walckenaer, 1802, Faune Parisienne, 2:207. Type from 
Paris, France, lost. 
Steatoda triangulosa, Levi, 1957, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 117(3) : 407, figs. 75, 
76, 80-82, $ $. 
Distribution. Central and southern Europe, southern Russia, 
Mediterranean, United States from Massachusetts to Oregon, south 
to southern Texas. The city-dwelling habit suggests that it has been 
