''Parasteatoda tabulata'' is a

cobweb spider Theridiidae, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, is a large family of araneomorph spiders first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833. This diverse, globally distributed family includes over 3,000 spec ...

first described by female found by H. W. Levi in 1980. It originates from tropical Asia, but has been introduced to North America, Europe, and temperate Asia including China, Korea, and Japan.

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External links

NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Parasteatoda tabulata''
Theridiidae Spiders described in 1980 {{theridiidae-stub