Cteniza sauvagesi (Rossi, 1788)
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 mmFemale
Prosoma length: 10 mm (excl. chelicerae).
Body length female: 25-30 mmDistribution
Phenology
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
 |  |
Figures
Bulbus, frontal view
(Decae et al. 2019)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Decae et al. 2019)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Decae et al. 2019)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Decae et al. 2019)
Bulbus, prolateral view
(Decae et al. 2019)
Tarsus
(Simon 1892)
Spermathecae
(Canard 2018)
Spermathecae
(Decae et al. 2019)
Sternum
(Canard 2018)
Eyes, dorsal view
(Decae 1996)
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.
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 
Decae A E (1996) Systematics of the trapdoor spider genus Cyrtocarenum Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Ctenizidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10: 161-170
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
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
Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Simon E (1892) Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 1: 1-256
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2