Speckled House Cob-web Spider
This species can be recognised by the black-banded legs and a black longitudinal streak on the fovea. The abdomen is covered with many long and curved spines. Its shape and colouration may vary, especially among females, but it is more rotund than that the Platnickina sp. featured on the previous page.
| Length | ♀ 3–4; ♂ 2–3 mm |
| Distribution | Widespread, including Singapore, Japan. |
| Habitat | Foliage in gardens and forests, and in crevices and walls in houses. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Holotype
Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; ♀ (3034) of Platnickina mneon (Dupérré, 2023a)
Theridion lyricum (Original description )
Walckenaer, 1841 Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième: 288 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095
Theridion lyra (Original description ♀)
Hentz, 1850 Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States: 279, pl. 9, f. 21
Theridion kentuckyense (Original description ♂)
Keyserling, 1884a Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. I. Hälfte: 78, pl. 4, f. 47 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832
Theridion kentuckyense (Original description ♀)
Banks, 1892a The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin: 30, pl. 5, f. 43
Theridion mneon (Original description ♀)
Dönitz & Strand, in Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 Japanische Spinnen: 142, pl. 12, f. 286
Theridion kentuckyense (♂♀)
Emerton, 1909 Supplement to the New England Spiders: 180, pl. 1, f. 6
Theridion lyricum (Synonym of Theridion lyra and T. floridense [rejected by Bryant, 1940: 319, see Theridion flavonotatum])
Petrunkevitch, 1911 A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc: 199
Theridion lyricum (Synonym of Theridion kentuckyense)
Archer, 1946 The Theridiidae or comb-footed spiders of Alabama: 43
Theridion lyra (♂♀)
Kaston, 1948 Spiders of Connecticut: 106, f. 132, 153-154
Allotheridion lyricum (Transferred from Theridion)
Archer, 1950 A study of theridiid and mimetid spiders with descriptions of new genera and species: 20
Theridion lyricum (♂♀)
Levi, 1957a The spider genera Enoplognatha, Theridion, and Paidisca in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae): 89, f. 322-323, 329-331
Theridion lyricum (♂♀)
Yoshida, 1987a The occurrence of Theridion lyricum Walckenaer, 1841, in Japan: 13, f. 1-2
Theridion lyricum (♂♀)
Yoshida, 1989b [Spiders from Mt: 318, f. 4P-R
Theridion lyricum (♂♀)
Chikuni, 1989b Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan: 44, f. 64
Theridion lyricum (♂♀)
Kim & Kim, 2001 Two unrecorded species of the genus Theridion (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Korea: 155, f. 2A-I
Keijia mneon (Transferred from Theridion)
Yoshida, 2001c A revision of the Japanese genera and species of the subfamily Theridiinae (Araneae: Theridiidae): 172 doi:10.2476/asjaa.50.157
Theridion lyricum (♂♀)
Namkung, 2002 The spiders of Korea: 96, f. 13.14a-b
Theridion lyricum (♂♀)
Paquin & Dupérré, 2003 Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec: 223, f. 2494-2496
Takayus lyricus (♂♀)
Namkung, 2003 The Spiders of Korea, 2nd: 98, f. 13.14a-b
Takayus lyricus (♂♀)
Yoshida, 2003a The spider family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Japan: 97, f. 239-242, 530
Yunohamella lyrica (Transferred from Takayus)
Yoshida, 2007 A new genus of the family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae): 69 doi:10.2476/asjaa.56.67
Platnickina mneon (Transferred from Keijia)
Koçak & Kemal, 2008a New synonyms and replacement names in the genus group taxa of Araneida: 3
Yunohamella lyrica (♂♀)
Yoshida, 2009b Uloboridae, Theridiidae, Ctenidae: 372, f. 149-150
Platnickina mneon (revalidation of Platnickina adamsoni)
Ono, 2011b Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Ogasawara Islands, Japan: 452
Yunohamella lyrica (♂)
Lee & Kim, 2021 A new spider of the genus Yunohamella (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Korea: 166, f. 4A doi:10.12782/specdiv.26.165
Yunohamella lyrica (♀)
Kim, 2021 Spiders V: 172, f. 75A-D
Platnickina mneon (♀, revalidation of Platnickina adamsoni confirmed)
Dupérré, 2023a New light on some historical type specimens -in relation to the South American spider (Araneae) fauna-: 231, 73A-C doi:10.1080/03014223.2022.2123835
Yunohamella lyrica (♂♀, Synonym of Platnickina mneon)
Zhong et al., 2025 Taxonomic notes on the genus Yunohamella Yoshida, 2007 (Araneae, Theridiidae) from China, with two new species: 79, f. 7A-F, 8A-B, 9A-F doi:10.3897/zookeys.1224.138987
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Widespread, including Singapore, Japan.