Chorizomma subterraneum Simon, 1872
Description
Prosoma uniformly yellow-brown, posterior median eyes smaller than remaining eyes. Legs light yellow. Opisthosoma uniformly grey.
Body length male: 3.7 mmBody length female: 4.2 mm
Additional information
living in caves
Lehtinen moved this species into the genus Cicurina, which was accepted by Brignoli, but later changed again. However, it would best fit into Cicurina (Marusik, personal communication 13.06.2013).
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(de Blauwe 1973)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lehtinen 1967)
Pedipalp
(de Blauwe 1973)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Barrientos 1985a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Barrientos 1985a)
Epigyne
(de Blauwe 1973)
Epigyne
(Lehtinen 1967)
Epigyne
(Barrientos 1985a)
Vulva
(Brignoli 1971d)
Vulva
(Barrientos 1985a)
Eyes, dorsal view
(de Blauwe 1973)
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
Barrientos J A (1985a) Artrópodos epigeos del macizo de San Juan de la Peña (Jaca, Prov. de Huesca): IX. Arañas agelénidas y hahnidas. Pirineos 126: 81-131 
Barrientos J A, Fadrique F (2024) La "Cova Urbana" de Tarragona (España), singularidad aracnológica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 43: 153-156
Blauwe R de (1973) Revision de la famille des Agelenidae (Araneae) de la région Mediterranéenne. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 49(2): 1-111
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Brignoli P M (1971d) Note su ragni cavernicoli italiani (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 7: 121-229
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Lehtinen P T (1967) Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468
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
Schönhofer A, Jäger P (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