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 mmFemale
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 mmAdditional information
In moist habitats, like mosses and leaf litter of beech wood.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Pesarini unpubl.)
Pedipalp
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Isaia et al. 2009)
Pedipalp
(Alicata 1964b)
Chelicera, frontal view
(Alicata 1964b)
Epigyne
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)
Posterodorsal valva of the vulva
(Isaia et al. 2009)
Vulva
(Alicata 1964b)
Distribution List
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 
Deeleman-Reinhold C L, Deeleman P R (1988) Revision des Dysderinae (Araneae, Dysderidae), les espèces mediterranéennes occidentales exceptées. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 131: 141-269
Isaia M, Osella G, Pannunzio G (2009) Hygropetric and litter-inhabiting spiders (Araneae) from the Abruzzo Apennines (central Italy). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 37: 15.26
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
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
Pesarini C (unpubl.)
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2