araneae - Eusparassus walckenaeri

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Eusparassus walckenaeri (Audouin, 1826)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028821

Description

Prosoma dark brown to orange-brown. Cheliceral furrow with intermarginal denticles. Legs with distinct darker bands. Opisthosoma: dorsum with a series of small chevron-like patterns, venter without marking.

Body length male: 13.4-20.6 mm
Body length female: 16.9-25.3 mm

Additional information

in semi-dry areas under flat stones, trogloxene (Greece)

Distribution

Presence

Not established

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece, Turkey, Algeria to Iraq, Sudan

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Figures

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Moradmand & Jäger 2012)

Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Moradmand & Jäger 2012)

Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Moradmand 2013)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Moradmand 2013)

Tip of pedipalp, ventral view
(Moradmand & Jäger 2012)

Eyes, dorsal view
(Moradmand & Jäger 2012)

Chelicera, ventral view
(Moradmand & Jäger 2012)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Moradmand & Jäger 2012)

Epigyne
(Moradmand 2013)

Vulva, antero-dorsolateral view
(Moradmand & Jäger 2012)

Vulva, dorsal view
(Moradmand 2013)

Chelicera, ventral view
(Moradmand & Jäger 2012)

Habitus, dorsal view
(Moradmand 2013)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Algeria (Moradmand, 2013; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Cyprus (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt (Moradmand, 2013; Levy, 1989) ||| Germany (Kielhorn, 2021) ||| Greece (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete (Bosmans et al., 2013; Moradmand & Jäger, 2012) ||| Italy Removed (Moradmand & Jäger, 2012) ||| Libya (Moradmand, 2013) ||| Netherlands (van Helsdingen, 2015b) ||| Tunisia (Moradmand, 2013) ||| Turkey (Asia) (Danışman et al., 2024a; Moradmand, 2013) ||| Turkey (Europe) (Demircan & Topçu, 2016) |||

References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info

Demircan N, Topçu A (2016) First records for spider fauna of the European part of Turkey (Araneae). Serket 15: 85-91

Helsdingen P J van (2015b) Binnenwandelende exoten. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 35: 33-34

Kielhorn K-H (2021) Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde aus Brandenburg und Berlin (Arachnida: Araneae). Märkische Entomologische Nachrichten 23: 229-248

Levy G (1989) The family of huntsman spiders in Israel with annotations on species of the Middle East (Araneae: Sparassidae). Journal of Zoology, London 217: 127-176

Moradmand M (2013) The stone huntsman spider genus Eusparassus (Araneae: Sparassidae): systematics and zoogeography with revision of the African and Arabian species. Zootaxa 3675: 1-108

Moradmand M, Jäger P (2012) Taxonomic revision of the huntsman spider genus Eusparassus Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Sparassidae) in Eurasia. Journal of Natural History 46: 2439-2496

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates

22-10-2023	Image insert
21-10-2023	Distribution insert	Detail
21-10-2023	Distribution update	Detail
25-02-2022	Distribution update	Detail
25-02-2022	Distribution insert	Detail
09-10-2021	Distribution update	Detail
09-10-2021	Distribution insert	Detail
28-11-2019	Distribution update	Detail
16-05-2018	Distribution update	Detail
22-12-2015	Distribution update	Detail