Barusia hofferi (Kratochvíl, 1935)
Description
Male
Unknown.
Female
Palp: femur with 7 spines, patella with one spine, tibia with 7 spines, tarsus with 2 ventral spines and 2 short apical spines. Prosoma pale purplish brown. Sternum blackish. Eyes in a compact group, almost as wide as long, a black area behind anterior eyes, posterior eyes less than one diameter from ALE. Chelicerae: promargin with 7 equidistant teeth, retromargin with 4 small teeth. Legs pale purplish brown, patella with one dorsal apical spine, tibia with 2 dorsal spines. Opisthosoma covered with dense hair, dorsally brownish, with 2 faint bands, ventrally blackish.
Additional information
Only one female specimen known. In cave.
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kratochvíl 1935c)
Epigyne/vulva
(Kratochvíl & Miller 1939)
Eyes, dorsal view
(Kratochvíl 1935c)
Gnathocoxa, prolateral view
(Kratochvíl & Miller 1939)
Labium
(Kratochvíl & Miller 1939)
Chelicera, posterior view
(Kratochvíl 1935c)
Distribution List
References
Kratochvíl J (1935c) Araignées cavernicoles de Krivosije. Práce Morav prírod spol 9(12): 1-25 
Kratochvíl J, Miller F (1939) Espèces nouvelles cavernicoles du genre Paraleptoneta (aranéides) découvertes en Yougoslavie. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 80(N. & Rev. 3): 96-115
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
Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 28-08-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 26-10-2015 | Image insert | |
| 03-09-2015 | Image insert |