First Record of the Genus Nesticodes Simon, 1894 from India with Taxonomic Studies on a Red Cob-Web-Spider Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846) (Araneae : Theridiidae) from West Bengal, India

Araneid Taxonomy in India was initially started with Westwood (1835). Many other workers like Blackwell(1864), Stoliczka (1869), Thorell (1877), Pocock (1895), Tikader (1966, 1970, 1977, 1977, 1980, 1982 & 1987), Tikader & Biswas (1981), Tikader & Gojbe (1982). Biswas 1985, Biswas & Biswas 1992, Saha et al., (1995), Majumder & Tikader (1991), Majumder (2004), Saha & Roychowdhuri (2004), Majumder & Talukdar (2006, 2008), Sebastian & Peter (2009) and many more contributed in this field of study.