Nesticodes rufipes

Nesticodes rufipes
Nesticodes rufipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Division:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Nesticodes Archer, 1950
Species:	rufipes (Lucas, 1846)
Synonyms
Theridion rufipes Lucas, 1846 Theridion luteolum Blackwall, 1859 Theridion borbonicum Vinson, 1863 Theridion luteipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 Theridion albonotatum Taczanowski, 1872 Theridion bajulans L. Koch, 1875 Theridion flavo-aurantiacum Simon, 1880 Theridion longipes Hasselt, 1882 Anelosimus nelsoni Bryant, 1945 Robertus pilosus Denis, 1956

Nesticodes rufipes, the red house spider, is a species of araneomorph spider from the Theridiidae family of genus Nesticodes.^[1]

Distribution

This species has a pantropical distribution, having been spread around the world by trade.

Description

female with egg sac

male

Small red-bodied spider. Non-venomous to humans.

External links

• Nesticodes rufipes at Fauna Europaea
• "Nesticodes rufipes". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). 
• Nesticodes at Fauna Europaea
• "Nesticodes". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). 

References

1. ↑ Platnick, 2011 : The world spider catalog 12.0 (American Museum of Natural History).

• Lucas, 1846 : Histoire naturelle des animaux articules. Exploration scientifique de l'Algerie pendant les annees 1840, 1841, 1842 publiee par ordre du Gouvernement et avec le concours d'une commission academique. Paris, Sciences physiques, Zoologie, vol. 1`, p. 89-271.
• Archer, 1950 : A study of theridiid and mimetid spiders with descriptions of new genera and species. Alabama Museum of Natural History Paper, vol. 30, p. 1-40.