Orange Silver Food Stealer
This common species in Singapore is easily recognised by its reddish orange colouration and its rather short, elevated abdomen with a rounded hump at the top. The abdomen is speckled with silver and black spots. One of the black spots is situated at the top of the abdominal hump, and the other just above the spinnerets. The clypeal cleft of the male is merely a narrow and groove-like indentation below the eyes, unlike the males of other Singapore Argyrodes which have a more pronounced excavation.
| Length | ♀ 5 mm; ♂ 3–4 mm |
| Distribution | Singapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak), Indonesia, Brunei, Myanmar, Laos, Sri Lanka, China. |
| Habitat | In the orb webs of some araneid spiders such as Cyrtophora and Nephila. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Argyrodes flavescens (Original description ♂♀)
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880b On some new and little known spiders of the genus Argyrodes: 321, pl. 28, f. 1 doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1880.tb06563.x
Argyrodes sumatranus (Original description ♂♀)
Argyrodes sumatranus (♂♀)
Workman & Workman, 1894 Malaysian spiders: 17, pl. 17 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.101972
Argyrodes flavescens (Synonym of Argyrodes sumatranus)
Thorell, 1895b Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum: 117 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.17492
Argyrodes miniaceus (♂♀; misidentified per Yoshida, 2003a: 149)
Dönitz & Strand, in Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 Japanische Spinnen: 132, pl. 15, f. 399, 403
Argyrodes miniaceus (♂♀; misidentified per Tanikawa, Chida & Kumada, 1996: 48)
Chikuni, 1989b Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan: 34, f. 22
Argyrodes flavescens (♂♀)
Zhu & Song, 1991 Notes on the genus Argyrodes from China (Araneae: Theridiidae): 135, f. 6A-D
Argyrodes flavescens (♂♀)
Tanikawa, Chida & Kumada, 1996 New records of Argyrodes flavescens (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan: 48, f. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 doi:10.2476/asjaa.45.47
Argyrodes flavescens (♂♀)
Zhu, 1998 Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae: 204, f. 132A-D
Argyrodes flavescens (♂♀)
Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 100, f. 46A-B, K
Argyrodes flavescens (♂♀)
Namkung, 2003 The Spiders of Korea, 2nd: 139, f. 13.54a-c
Argyrodes flavescens (♂♀)
Yoshida, 2003a The spider family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Japan: 149, f. 400-402
Argyrodes flavescens (♂♀)
Yoshida, 2009b Uloboridae, Theridiidae, Ctenidae: 386, f. 287-289
Argyrodes falvescens (♂♀, lapsus)
Javed, Srinivasulu & Tampal, 2010 Addition to araneofauna of Andhra Pradesh, India: occurrence of three species of Argyrodes Simon, 1864 (Araneae: Theridiidae): 983, f. 7-9 doi:10.11609/JoTT.o2194.980-5
Argyrodes flavescens (♂♀)
Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 280, f. 99a-e
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Singapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak), Indonesia, Brunei, Myanmar, Laos, Sri Lanka, China.