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

Harpactea piligera (Thorell, 1875)

Description
Male

Prosoma 2 mm long.

Body length male: 6.1 mm
Female

Prosoma light brown, smooth, 1.6-2.1 mm long. Sternum yellow-brown. Legs: femur I and II with one to 3 spines, femur III with 2 rows of spines, femur IV with one to 5 spines.

Body length female: 4.3-6.3 mm
Additional information

In mixed forests, chestnut grove, beech forests, oak forests. Altitude up to 1400 m.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Phenology
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Peak in June and July (male and female)
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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.

Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

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

Gasparo F (1996a) Note su Harpactea piligera (Araneae, Dysderidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 28: 1-13 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

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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