Helenidion huberti (Benoit, 1977)
Hubert's cobweb spider
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Theridula huberti Benoit, 1977
Conservation Status
Missing (Sherwood et al., 2025)
Last record: 1967 (Sherwood et al., 2025)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution & Habitat
St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Benoit, P. L. G. (1977). Theridiidae. In: Basilewsky, P. (ed.). La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène. Quatrième partie. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Zoologie. 220: 131-152.
Other references:
Ashmole, N. P. and Ashmole, M. J. (2000). St Helena and Ascension Island: A Natural History. Anthony Nelson, Oswetry, Shropshire.
Cairns-Wicks, R., Jervois, M. and Kindemba, V. (2016). St. Helena Invertebrate Conservation Strategy 2016-2021. St. Helena National Trust, Environmental Management Division of St. Helena Government, and Buglife.
Key, R. (2014). Non-indigenous Animal Taxa on St Helena: likely effects on endemic and indigenous invertebrates and their habitats and possible control measures. Saint Helena National Trust.
Mendel, H., Ashmole, N. P. and Ashmole, M. J. (2008). Invertebrates of the Central Peaks and Peak Dale, St Helena. Commissioned by the St Helena National Trust, Jamestown, St Helena.
Sherwood, D., Fowler, L., Stevens, N., Peyton, J., Scipio-O'Dean, C. J., Sharp, A., White, L., Pryce, D. and Wilkins, V. L. (2025). Helenidion huberti. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T66188062A67528347. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T66188062A67528347.en. Accessed on 06 August 2026.
Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Jocqué, R., Fowler, L., Marusik, Y. M., Maddison, W., Harvey, M. S., Hormiga, G., Rheims, C. A., Piacentini, L. N., Peters, M., Stevens, N., Joshua, D., Scipio-O’Dean, C. J., Ellick, G., Wilkins, V., Ashmole, M. and Ashmole, P. (2024). Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19(9): 1218-1291. https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1218
St Helena Government. (2019). The Peaks National Park Conservation Management Plan 2019-2024.
St Helena National Trust and St Helena Government. (2023). St Helena’s Terrestrial Invertebrate Conservation Strategy 2023-2028.
Udvardy, M. D. (1975). A classification of the biogeographical provinces of the world. Occasional Paper of the IUCN 18: 1-48.