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Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Stalagtia  Kratochvíl, 1970   8 species

Stalagtia hercegovinensis  (Nosek, 1905)

Description
Male

Palp: bulb nearly as wide as long, embolus shorter than the bulb, its tip curved. Prosoma 2.9-5.3 mm long.

Female

Prosoma 3.9-4.2 mm long. Eyes absent, or small pale eyes. Chelicerae: promargin and retromargin each with 2 teeth. Legs: anterior tibia with 0 to 10 ventral spines, metatarsus with 0 to 8 ventral spines.

Body length female: 6.5-12 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Record from Turkey belongs to Harpactea christodeltshevi (Özkütük et al. 2019d)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece (Crete)
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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.

Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Komnenov, 2010) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| Serbia   (no references) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1978a) Les araignées du genre Rhode de Yougoslavie (Araneae, Dysderidae). International Journal of Speleology 9: 251-266 pdf

Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1993) The genus Rhode and the harpacteine genera Stalagtia, Folkia, Minotauria, and Kaemis (Araneae, Dysderidae) of Yugoslavia and Crete, with remarks on the genus Harpactea. Revue Arachnologique 10: 105-135 pdf

Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69 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

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, 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 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 pdf

Özkütük R S, Yağmur E A, Kunt K B, Karaduman N (2019d) Redescription of Harpactea christodeltshevi Bayram, Kunt & Yağmur, 2009 (Araneae, Dysderidae) from Turkey. Commagene Journal of Biology 3: 75-78 pdf

Varol M İ (2016b) Stalagtia hercegovinensis (Nosek, 1905), a new record from Turkey (Araneae: Dysderidae). Serket 15: 44-46 pdf

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

Updates
08-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
29-12-2019 Distribution update Detail
14-06-2016 Distribution update Detail
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