Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Harpactea  Bristowe, 1939   206 species

Harpactea sturanyi  (Nosek, 1905)

Description
Male

Prosoma 2.1-3.0 mm long, brownish red, cephalic part darker. Legs: femur I with a group of 4 spines, femur II with a row of 5 spines, femur III with 2 rows of spines, femur IV with numerous spines, patella III and IV with one spine. Opisthosoma whitish.

Body length male: 4.82-6.5 mm
Female

Prosoma brownish, 1.9-2.5 mm long. Legs: femur I with a group of 3 or 4 spines, femur II with a row of 2 to 4 spines.

Body length female: 4.95-6.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece, Turkey, Georgia
Phenology
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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.

Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024) |||
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) pdf

Brignoli P M (1977a) Ragni di Grecia X. Nuovi dati sulla Grecia continentale ed insulare (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 84: 937-954 pdf

Brignoli P M (1978a) Ragni di Turchia V. Specie nuove o interesanti, cavernicole ed epigee, di varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 85: 461-541 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Dimitrov D, Deltshev C, Lazarov S (2019) Description of Harpactea popovi sp. n. from Bulgaria with further taxonomic notes on related species (Araneae, Dysderidae). Zootaxa 4568: 593-600 pdf

Dunin P M (1992b) The spider family Dysderidae of the Caucasian fauna (Arachnida Aranei Haplogynae). Arthropoda Selecta 1(3): 35-76 pdf

Lecigne S (2021a) A new species of Sintula (Linyphiidae), redescription of Brigittea innocens (Dictynidae) and eight spider species newly recorded for Turkey (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 11-34 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
08-07-2021 Image insert
02-07-2021 Distribution insert Detail
23-03-2019 Image insert
21-03-2019 Distribution update Detail