Most species are mainly grayish brown to blackish brown, but some are bright orange.
This is mostly an Old World genus, with many species found in Asia and New Guinea , but reaching into Europe . A single species, P. tepidariorum is found in the New World , but P. tepidariorum australis can also be found in New Guinea, Myanmar and Pakistan.
Many species in this genus were moved from Achaearanea during a major revision in 2008.
The genus name is combined from Ancient Greek para "beside, near" and the theridiid genus Steatoda Japanese name for this genus is O-himogumo zoku ("thread silk spider family").
Parasteatoda angulithorax (Bösenberg & Strand , 1906) — Russia , China , Korea , Taiwan , Japan Parasteatoda asiatica (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — China, Korea, JapanParasteatoda brookesiana (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) — India , Philippines Parasteatoda campanulata (Chen, 1993) — ChinaParasteatoda camura (Simon , 1877) — Philippines, New Guinea, Solomon IslandsParasteatoda celsadomina (Zhu, 1998) — ChinaParasteatoda cingulata (Zhu, 1998) — ChinaParasteatoda culicivora (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — China, JapanParasteatoda daliensis (Zhu, 1998) — ChinaParasteatoda decorata (L. Koch, 1867) — Krakatau, New Guinea, Queensland Parasteatoda ducta (Zhu, 1998) — ChinaParasteatoda ferrumequina (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — China, Korea, JapanParasteatoda galeiforma (Zhu, Zhang & Xu, 1991) — ChinaParasteatoda gui (Zhu, 1998) — ChinaParasteatoda hammeni (Chrysanthus, 1963) — New GuineaParasteatoda japonica (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — China, Taiwan, Korea, JapanParasteatoda jinghongensis (Zhu, 1998) — ChinaParasteatoda kaindi (Levi , Lubin & Robinson, 1982) — New GuineaParasteatoda kompirensis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — China, Korea, JapanParasteatoda lanyuensis (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000) — TaiwanParasteatoda longiducta (Zhu, 1998) — ChinaParasteatoda lunata (Clerck , 1757) — PalearcticParasteatoda lunata serrata (Franganillo, 1930) — Cuba Parasteatoda mundula (L. Koch, 1872) — India to New CaledoniaParasteatoda mundula papuana (Chrysanthus, 1963) — New GuineaParasteatoda oculiprominens (Saito, 1939) — China, Korea, JapanParasteatoda oxymaculata (Zhu, 1998) — ChinaParasteatoda polygramma (Kulczynski, 1911) — New GuineaParasteatoda quadrimaculata (Yoshida, Tso & Severinghaus, 2000) — TaiwanParasteatoda ryukyu (Yoshida, 2000) — Japan, Ryukyu IslandsParasteatoda simulans (Thorell , 1875) — PalearcticParasteatoda songi (Zhu, 1998) — ChinaParasteatoda subtabulata (Zhu, 1998) — ChinaParasteatoda subvexa (Zhu, 1998) — ChinaParasteatoda tabulata (Levi, 1980) — HolarcticParasteatoda tepidariorum (C. L. Koch, 1841) — AmericasParasteatoda tepidariorum australis (Thorell, 1895) — New Guinea, Myanmar, PakistanParasteatoda tesselata (Keyserling , 1884) — Mexico to Paraguay, New Guinea, PakistanParasteatoda transipora (Zhu & Zhang, 1992) — ChinaParasteatoda triangula (Yoshida, 1993) — Singapore , Java , Bali Parasteatoda valoka (Chrysanthus, 1975) — New Guinea, New Britain Parasteatoda vervoorti (Chrysanthus, 1975) — New GuineaParasteatoda wau (Levi, Lubin & Robinson, 1982) — New Guinea
