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Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Coelotes  Blackwall, 1841   21 species

Coelotes poweri Simon, 1875

Description
Male

Prosoma brown-red, pars cephalica slightly lighter, eye region black, large, dark lines radiating from large, black fovea. Chelicerae brown, with 3 teeth on pro- and retromargin each. Palps: Patellar apophysis not divided and neither concave nor plane (in contrast to C. pabulator and C. pastor). Bulb with pointed lever ventral of conductor.

prosoma length: 5.4 mm, prosoma width: 4.0 mm.

Body length male: 11 mm
Female

Prosoma brown-red, pars cephalica slightly lighter, eye region black, large, dark lines radiating from large, black fovea. Chelicerae brown, with 3 teeth on pro- and retromargin each. Epigyne resembling C. pastor, but lateral grooves are lyriform in C. poweri. Anterior edge medially not strongly rebordered.

prosoma length: 7.0 mm, prosoma width: 4.9 mm.

Body length female: 13.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Omitted from the Bulgarian checklist according to Deltshev (1990). North Macedonia should be confirmed.
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (France, Italy)
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Distribution List
Bulgaria  Removed (Deltshev, 1990) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| North Macedonia   (Blagoev, 2002) |||
References

Blagoev G (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34 pdf

Blauwe R de (1973) Revision de la famille des Agelenidae (Araneae) de la région Mediterranéenne. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 49(2): 1-111 pdf

Deltshev C D (1990) A critical review of genus Coelotes Blackwall in Bulgaria with description of a new species (Coelotes drenskii sp. n.) (Araneae, Agelenidae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 40: 29-43 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Maurer R (1982b) Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Coelotes (Araneae. Agalenidae) in Alpenländern II. Die pastor-Gruppe der italienischen und französischen Alpen-Beschreibung  von C. pastor lessinensis ssp n. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 8: 165-183 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
27-05-2025 Distribution insert Detail
27-05-2025 Distribution update Detail
09-05-2016 Datasheet update Detail
10-03-2015 Distribution update Detail