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''Theridula'' is a genus of 
In females, the abdomen is wider than long, with a hump or horn on each side, and sometimes a posterior median horn. The
cobweb
A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word '' coppe'', meaning 'spider') is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey.
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spider
Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...
s, found in many (mostly tropical) parts of the world. Species vary in size from 1 to 3.5 mm in length.
In females, the abdomen is wider than long, with a hump or horn on each side, and sometimes a posterior median horn. The pedipalp
Pedipalps (commonly shortened to palps or palpi) are the secondary pair of forward appendages among Chelicerata, chelicerates – a group of arthropods including spiders, scorpions, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders. The pedipalps are lateral to ...
in males is simple, lacking a conductor or theridioid tegular apophysis.
Theridula spiders are frequently found on bushes or tall grass where they rest on the undersides of leaves near their webs.
Species
* '' Theridula albonigra'' Caporiacco, 1949 (Kenya) ** ''Theridula albonigra vittata'' Caporiacco, 1949 (Kenya) * '' Theridula angula'' Tikader, 1970 (India) * '' Theridula casas'' Levi, 1954 (Mexico) * '' Theridula emertoni'' Levi, 1954 (USA, Canada) * '' Theridula faceta'' (O. P.-Cambridge, 1894) (Mexico, Guatemala) * '' Theridula gonygaster'' (Simon, 1873) (Cosmopolitan) * '' Theridula huberti'' Benoit, 1977 (St. Helena) * '' Theridula iriomotensis'' Yoshida, 2001 (Japan) * '' Theridula multiguttata'' Keyserling, 1896 (Brazil) * '' Theridula nigerrima'' (Petrunkevitch, 1911) (Ecuador, Peru) * '' Theridula opulenta'' (Walckenaer, 1842) (Cosmopolitan) * '' Theridula perlata'' Simon, 1889 (Madagascar) * '' Theridula puebla'' Levi, 1954 (Mexico, Panama) * '' Theridula pulchra'' Berland, 1920 (East Africa) * '' Theridula sexpupillata'' Mello-Leitão, 1941 (Brazil) * '' Theridula swatiae'' Biswas, Saha & Raychaydhuri, 1997 (India) * '' Theridula theriella'' Strand, 1907 (Madagascar) * '' Theridula zhangmuensis'' Hu, 2001 (China)References
Araneomorphae genera Cosmopolitan spiders {{Theridiidae-stub