Rhode testudinea Pesarini, 1984
Description
Male
Prosoma 1.2 mm long.
Body length male: 2.8 mmFemale
Prosoma and sternum red-brown, with grains. Eyes reduced, PME about 2 diameters from PLE. Chelicerae margin with 3 teeth. Opisthosoma with a dorsal and a ventral scutum.
Body length female: 2.7-3.1 mmAdditional information
Altitude 950 m.
No illustrations for females available.
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Pesarini 1984)
Eyes, antero-dorsal view
(Pesarini 1984)
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.
References
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
Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13
Pesarini C (1984) Rhode testudinea n. sp. delle Alpi Cozie, e considerazioni sulla sistematica della tribu' Rhodini. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 125: 81-86
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
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