Stalita taenaria Schiødte, 1847
Description
Male
Palp: bulb long, almost cylindrical, end of bulb with numerous long teeth, tip of embolus claw-shaped. Prosoma flat, deeply dark rust brown. Legs red-brown, with numerous spines only on tibiae and femora, partly wisp-like. Opisthosoma bright ivory-coloured, longish oval, densely haired.
Body length male: 6.7 mmFemale
Vulva: anterior part T-shaped. Prosoma 3.2-3.7 mm long. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth, retromargin with one tooth.
Body length female: 7-9 mmAdditional information
living in caves
Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Kratochvíl 1970)
Pedipalp
(Pesarini unpubl.)
Pedipalp
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978a)
Bulbus and embolus
(Kratochvíl 1970)
Posterior margin of prosoma, dorsal view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978a)
Sternum
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978a)
Tarsal claw of leg I, lateral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978a)
Epigyne
(Kratochvíl 1970)
Epigyne
(Kratochvíl 1970)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978a)
Spiracles, left half
(Kratochvíl 1970)
Spinnerets
(Kratochvíl 1970)
Sternum and labium
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)
Distribution List
References
Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1978a) Les araignées du genre Rhode de Yougoslavie (Araneae, Dysderidae). International Journal of Speleology 9: 251-266 
Deeleman-Reinhold C L, Deeleman P R (1988) Revision des Dysderinae (Araneae, Dysderidae), les espèces mediterranéennes occidentales exceptées. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 131: 141-269
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
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Kratochvíl J (1970) Cavernicole Dysderae. Přírodovědné práce ústavů Československé Akademie Věd v Brně (N.S.) 4: 1-62
Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522
Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13
Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna].
Pesarini C (unpubl.)
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
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