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Ctenizidae  Thorell, 1887 / Cteniza  Latreille, 1829   3 species

Cteniza sauvagesi  (Rossi, 1788)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000537

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Description
Male

Prosoma oval, blackish. Labium and coxa of palpal without denticles. Opisthosoma male: ventrally not very distinctly marked off from dorsal black.

Body length male: 25-27 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 10 mm (excl. chelicerae).

Body length female: 25-30 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): France (Corsica), Italy
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Bulbus, frontal view
(Decae et al. 2019)

species

male Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Decae et al. 2019)

species

male Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Decae et al. 2019)

species

male Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Decae et al. 2019)

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male Bulbus, prolateral view
(Decae et al. 2019)

species

male Tarsus
(Simon 1892)

species

female Spermathecae
(Canard 2018)

species

female Spermathecae
(Decae et al. 2019)

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female Sternum
(Canard 2018)

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Eyes, dorsal view
(Decae 1996)

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Chelicera
(Simon 1892)

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.

France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Tunisia  Removed (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Canard A (2018) Une nouvelle espèce de Mygale (Araneae, Ctenizidae): Cteniza genevieveae n. sp. (♀) découverte au sud de la Corse. Revue Arachnologique (2) 5: 30-35 pdf

Decae A E (1996) Systematics of the trapdoor spider genus Cyrtocarenum Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Ctenizidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10: 161-170 pdf

Decae A, Mammola S, Rizzo P, Isaia M (2019) Systematics, ecology and distribution of the mygalomorph spider genus Cteniza Latreille, 1829 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae). Zootaxa 4550: 499-524 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

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

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Simon E (1892) Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 1: 1-256 pdf

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
26-05-2025 Distribution insert Detail
20-12-2019 Distribution update Detail
28-11-2019 Distribution update Detail
29-01-2019 Image insert
29-01-2019 Distribution update Detail
10-10-2018 Image insert