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Macrothelidae  Simon, 1892 / Macrothele  Ausserer, 1871   3 species

Macrothele cretica Kulczyński, 1903

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000188

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Description

Bulbus of male palp simple. Embolus long, slightly curved. Prosoma middle red-brown with darker striae. Sternum oval, with 6 oval sigilla. Distal part of chelicerae with short, strong hairs. Opisthosoma pale yellow-grey. 4 Spinnerets, posterior laterals long, three-segmented, with retrolateral subsegmentation of basal segment

Body length male: 14.4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece (Crete)
Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Snazell & Allison 1989)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Chatzaki & Komnenov 2019)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Chatzaki & Komnenov 2019)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Chatzaki & Komnenov 2019)

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male Leg I
(Snazell & Allison 1989)

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male Leg II
(Snazell & Allison 1989)

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female Epigyne
(Chatzaki & Komnenov 2019)

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female Spermathecae
(Chatzaki & Komnenov 2019)

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.

Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) |||
References

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Chatzaki M, Komnenov M (2019) Description of a new Chaetopelma (Araneae, Theraphosidae) species from Crete and a re-description of Macrothele cretica Kulczyński, 1903 (Araneae, Macrothelidae). Zootaxa 4544: 269-284 pdf

Snazell R, Allison R (1989) The genus Macrothele Ausserer (Araneae, Hexathelidae) in Europe. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8: 65-72 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
11-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
11-01-2019 Image insert