Male palp with median apophysis ending pointed. Epigyne with spoon-shaped scapus. Prosoma reddish dark brown. Opisthosoma extremely flat and uniformly reddish dark brown to almost black. Dark folium margined by narrow, yellowish line. Sides only slightly brighter than folium, mostly reddish brown.
Body length male: 7.5-9.0 mmVery often on trees and buildings in narrow crevices.
This species can bite humans (Nentwig et al., 2013). The bite is not very painful and pain disappears after a few minutes.
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"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.
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