Steatoda
(after Vanuytven 2021): Species in the genus Steatoda are often readily identified by the colouarion of the abdomen, which is generally reddish-brown to black, often with light band around anterior margin in addition to other light lines lines or spots.
The genus includes common cosmopolitan and synanthropic species, such as the Cupboard Spiders S. grossa and S. capensis.
Publications
Hann SW (1994): Descriptions of four Steatoda species (Araneae, Theridiidae) found in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 21: 225 - 238
Vanuytven, H. (2021): The Theridiidae of the World. A key to the genera with their diagnosis and a study of the body length of all known species. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society. 35 (Supplement): 1 - 363