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Titanoecidae  Lehtinen, 1967 / Titanoeca  Thorell, 1870   17 species

Titanoeca praefica (Simon, 1870)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023205

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Description
Male

Dull black. Opisthosoma black, with fine hairs. Chelicerae long. Prosoma rounded laterally, with weak radiating stripes and median longitudinal stripe. Pedipalps brown.

Body length male: 5.5 mm
Female

Opisthosoma black, with fine hairs. Copulatory ducts not rolled or spiralized.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France, Algeria, Russia (Europe)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Barrientos et al. 2020c)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Barrientos et al. 2020c)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Barrientos et al. 2020c)

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male Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Barrientos et al. 2020c)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Simon 1914)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Esyunin & Efimik 1995)

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female Epigyne
(Barrientos et al. 2020c)

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female Vulva
(Hubert 1966)

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female Vulva
(Esyunin & Efimik 1995)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Barrientos et al. 2020c)

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   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Silva A, Patanita M I, Benhadi-Marín J, Melic A, Santos S A P (2020c) Abundancia y diversidad de arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) en olivares del distrito de Beja (Portugal) en diferentes sistemas de cultivo. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 37: 212-224 pdf

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

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1995) Remarks on the Ural spider fauna, 4. New records of spider species (excluding Linyphiidae) from the Urals (Arachnida Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 4(1): 71-91 pdf

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp. pdf

Hubert M (1966) Remarques sur quelques espèces d'araignées appartenant au genre Titanoeca Thorell 1870. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 38: 238-246 pdf

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

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
03-10-2025 Distribution insert Detail
03-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
04-01-2021 Image insert
10-05-2016 Datasheet update Detail
06-05-2014 Image insert