Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Parachtes  Alicata, 1964   13 species

Parachtes inaequipes (Simon, 1882)

Description
Male

Palp: bulb spindle-shaped, sinuous, with a strong tip, which is widened and membranous at its end.

Female

Prosoma dark red-brown, 4 mm long. Sternum red-brown. Legs red-brownish, anteriors much stronger, femur I with 2 strong prolateral spines, femur II and III spineless, femur IV with 3 ventral spines, tibia I and II spineless, tibia III and IV with numerous spines. Opisthosoma greyish, dorsally lighter.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (Corsica)
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1975c) Ragni d'Italia. XXIII. Nuovi dati su alcune Haplogynae (Araneae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 107: 170-178 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 (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 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

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 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

Updates
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