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

Parachtes siculus (Caporiacco, 1949)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004777

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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 2026): Italy
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Pesarini unpubl.)

species

male Pedipalp
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Isaia et al. 2009)

species

male Pedipalp
(Alicata 1964b)

species

male Chelicera, frontal view
(Alicata 1964b)

species

female Epigyne
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)

species

female Posterodorsal valva of the vulva
(Isaia et al. 2009)

species

female Vulva
(Alicata 1964b)

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   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
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

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 (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

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 pdf