Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Harpactea  Bristowe, 1939   221 species

Harpactea rubicunda (C. L. Koch, 1838)

Description
Male

Prosoma red-brown, 4 mm long. Coxa IV with 1-8 spines. Femur I and II with 3-6 spines.

Body length male: 8-12 mm
Female

Prosoma and Sternum red-brown. Prosoma 3.5-4 mm long. Leg I and II red-brown, III and IV yellowish, femur I and II with 3 to 6 spines, femur IV with 8 to 10 dorsal spines, coxa IV with one to 8 spines, patella III with at least one spine.

Body length female: 8-12 mm
Additional information

Mainly in dry or semi-dry forests, scree slopes, dry grasslands, forest steppes, also in gardens, in houses, under stones and detritus.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia)
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Austria   (Thaler & Knoflach, 2002b) ||| Belarus   (Miasnikou, unpubl.; Dashkevich, 2015) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Denmark   (Scharff & Gudik-Sørensen, 2006) ||| France   (Legris & Vidal, 2014) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy  Removed (Pantini & Isaia, 2018) ||| Kosovo   (Geci et al., 2025c) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Lithuania   (Biteniekytė & Rėlys, 2012) ||| Moldova   (Vasiliev & Mikhailov, 2023) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Central   (Prisniy & Ponomarev, 2024) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Grbić et al., 2015) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain  Removed (Ferrández, 2024a) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
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