Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Harpactea  Bristowe, 1939   221 species

Harpactea gridellii (Caporiacco, 1951)

Description
Male

Prosoma 1.3-1.6 mm long.

Body length male: 3.8 mm
Female

Prosoma reddish brown, 1.4-1.6 mm long. Legs: femur I and II with one or 2 spines, femur III with 3 to 5 spines, femur IV with one to 3 spines.

Body length female: 4.3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Adults of both sexes also in spring.
Figures
Distribution List
Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Tunisia  Removed (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Alicata P (1966c) Le Harpactea (Araneae, Dysderidae) della fauna italiana e considerazioni sulla loro origine. Atti dell' Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali in Catania (6) 18: 190-221 pdf

Alicata P (1974a) Le Harpactea Bristowe (Araneae, Dysderidae) del Nord Africa. Animalia 1: 3-24 pdf

Brignoli P M (1979d) Ragni d'Italia XXIX. Dysderidae nuovi o interessanti (Araneae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 111: 17-26 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522 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

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