Comaroma simoni Bertkau, 1889
Description
Cymbium angled with respect to tibial axis. Embolus short and robust. Epigyne only recognisable by receptacula seminis. Prosoma red-brown, with darker margin, anterior median eyes very small, sometimes completely reduced. Sternum red-brown. Chelicerae red-brown to brown. Legs red-brown, short and robust, patella brighter. Opisthosoma broad and flat, dorsally and ventrally with red-brown scuta and numerous, small chitinous plates.
Body length male: 1.6 mmBody length female: 1.6 mm
Additional information
In leaf litter of damp woodland. This species builds a small, modified orb web.
Troglophile species (Mammola et al. 2018b)
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kropf 1990)
Pedipalp
(Kropf 1990)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1998)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1998)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Kropf 1990)
Eyes, frontal view
(Kropf 1998)
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
Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 
Helsdingen P J van, IJland S, Komnenov M (2018) Inventory of the spiders (Araneae) of the border region of northern Greece with Albania and FYR Macedonia. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 37: 5-23
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230
Kropf C (1990) Comaroma is an anapid spider (Arachnida, Araneae, Anapidae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 31/32: 185-203
Kropf C (1998) Distribution and geographic variation of Comaroma simonii Bertkau, 1889 (Arachnida, Araneae, Anapidae). In Arthropod Biology: Contributions to Morphology, Ecology and Systematics. (E. Ebermann, ed) - Biosystematics and Ecology Series 14: 315-331
Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M (2018b) A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56: 301-316
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
Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.
Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
Staudt A, Weber D, Nährig D (2013) Webspinnen (Arachnida, Araneae) aus Höhlen des Großherzogtums Luxemburg. Ferrantia 69: 115-157
WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (14.02.2023) doi: 10.24436/2