Psammitis bonneti (Denis, 1938)
Description
Male
Palp male: without tegular apophysis. Cymbium with basally broad process. Tibial apophysis situated ventrally and with 2 lobes, the ventral one hook-shaped, the retrolateral plate-shaped. Both ends blunt. Embolus whip-like bent, with dorsally directed tip. Prosoma dark brown, with striking Y- or V-shaped cream coloured pattern. Female: grey to dark grey, high contrastic, split up in 3 stripes. Sternum brown to dark brown, brown at margin. Chelicerae brown to dark brown, with broad transverse stripes or beige and brown spots. Frontally with long, very fine spine. Legs dark brown, with irregular cream coloured spots. Opisthosoma black-grey, oval. Dorsally with bright, slightly sinuate leaf pattern (partly completely bright specimens, then spotted with grey). Margin white to grey. Spinnerets brown to grey-brown.
Body length male: 3.8-4.4 mmFemale
Palp female: densely provided with large spines. Epigyne with ± triangular epigynal groove, laterally marked with strong chitinous wall. May vary considerably in shape. Vulva with oval to kidney-shaped transverse sacs. Partly with dark glandular secretion.
Body length female: 4.3-5.1 mmAdditional information
in subalpine regions
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Steinwandter et al. 2022)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Steinwandter et al. 2022)
Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Epigyne
(Jantscher 2001a)
Epigyne
(Jantscher 2001a)
Epigyne
(Jantscher 2001a)
Epigyne
(Jantscher 2001a)
Epigyne
(Jantscher 2001a)
Vulva
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Jantscher 2001a)
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.
References
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) 
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Denis J (1938) A contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of the Andorra Valleys. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (B) 107: 565-595
Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp.
Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin
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
Jantscher E (2001a) Revision der Krabbenspinnengattung Xysticus C.L. Koch, 1835 (Araneae, Thomisidae) in Zentraleuropa. Dissertation, Univ. Graz, 328 pp., 81 pls.
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Steinwandter M, Spinn J von, Thaler-Knoflach B, Seeber J (2022) Neufunde von Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) für Südtirol und Italien aus dem Obervinschgau. Gredleriana 22: 141-148
Thaler K, Knoflach B (2004b) Zur Faunistik der Spinnen (Araneae) von Österreich: Gnaphosidae, Thomisidae (Dionycha pro parte). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 36: 417-484
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2