Cicurinidae  F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893 / Chorizomma  Simon, 1872   1 species

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 mm
Body 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
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Croatia: leg. A. Schönhofer, det. P. Jäger, Senckenberg-Museum (Ref: SMF 62378)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, France
Phenology
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 male  female
Barrientos (1985)
Figures
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.

Croatia   (Schönhofer & Jäger, unpubl.) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019; Barrientos & Fadrique, 2024) |||
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 pdf

Barrientos J A, Fadrique F (2024) La "Cova Urbana" de Tarragona (España), singularidad aracnológica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 43: 153-156 pdf

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 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Brignoli P M (1971d) Note su ragni cavernicoli italiani (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 7: 121-229 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

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 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, 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 pdf

Schönhofer A, Jäger P (unpubl.) .

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
15-07-2024 Distribution update Detail
22-01-2024 Distribution update Detail