Harpactea srednagora Dimitrov & Lazarov, 1999
Description
Male
Close to H. cressa. Prosoma 2.2-2.9 mm long. Legs: femur I with 3 to 5 spines, femur II with 5 or 6 spines, femur III with 5 spines, femur IV with numerous spines.
Body length male: 5.9 mmFemale
Close to H. cressa. Prosoma reddish, 3.1 mm long. Legs red-orange.
Body length female: 6.5 mmAdditional information
In scree and dry stony areas with bushes. Altitude 580-990 m.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lazarov 2006)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Lazarov 2006)
Bulbus, frontal view
(Geci et al. 2025c)
Bulbus, prolateral view
(Geci et al. 2025c)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Geci et al. 2025c)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Geci et al. 2025c)
Endogyne, ventral view
(Lazarov 2007b)
Vulva, ventral view
(Lazarov 2007b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Lazarov 2007b)
Vulva, variation, ventral view
(Lazarov 2007b)
Vulva, variation, dorsal view
(Lazarov 2007b)
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.
References
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) 
Geci D, Ibrahimi H, Strohmeier T, Koblmüller S, Bilalli A, Zamani A (2025c) First DNA barcoding of Dysderidae (Araneae) from Kosovo, with new records and the description of a new species of Harpactea Bristowe, 1939. Zootaxa 5653: 486-500
Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267
Kůrka A, Naumova M, Indzhov S, Deltshev C (2020) New faunistic and taxonomic data on the spider fauna of Albania (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 8-21
Lazarov S (2006) A new spider species, Harpactea samuili sp. n., from Bulgaria (Araneae: Dysderidae). In C. Deltshev & P. Stoev (eds.), European Arachnology 2005. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica Supplement 1: 81-85
Lazarov S P (2007b) New records of Harpactea srednogora [sic] Dimitrov et Lazarov, 1999 from Bulgaria with a description of the hitherto unknown female (Aranea: Dysderidae). Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 18: 29-33
WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2