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

Parachtes siculus  (Caporiacco, 1949)

Description
Male

Palp: bulb pear-shaped, with the end divided into 2 unequal points joined with a membranous strip. Prosoma 2.9-3.1 mm long.

Body length male: 7.85 mm
Female

Prosoma 3.2-3.3 mm long. Legs: femur I with 2 spines, femur II and III spineless, femur IV with several spines.

Body length female: 9.1 mm
Additional information

In moist habitats, like mosses and leaf litter of beech wood.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy
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.

Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) |||
References

Alicata P (1964b) Le specie italiane di Harpactocrates e di Parachtes n. gen. (Araneae, Dysderidae). Annuario dell'Istituto e Museo di Zoologia dell'Universita di Napoli 16 (3): 1-40 pdf

Deeleman-Reinhold C L, Deeleman P R (1988) Revision des Dysderinae (Araneae, Dysderidae), les espèces mediterranéennes occidentales exceptées. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 131: 141-269 pdf

Isaia M, Osella G, Pannunzio G (2009) Hygropetric and litter-inhabiting spiders (Araneae) from the Abruzzo Apennines (central Italy). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 37: 15.26 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

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Pesarini C (unpubl.)

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