Oonopidae  Simon, 1890 / Oonopinus  Simon, 1893   2 species

Oonopinus angustatus  (Simon, 1882)

Description
Male

Male palp as in Oonops pulcher, but tarsus narrow and cylindrical, longer than patella and tibia together, bulb very large, pear-shaped, embolus thin, cylindrical, bearing a black style. Prosoma light reddish-brown, oblong oval, scattered with hairs quite short and strong. Ocular area almost as wide as the front of Prosoma. Sternum and labium scattered with obtuse hairs. Eyes large and subequal, ringed with black, medians sub-contiguous, oblong, laterals sub-contiguous, oval, ALE a little larger than posteriors, nearly contiguous to the medians, PLE markedly distant from the medians. Clypeus more narrow than the diameter of anterior eyes. Legs not long, light brownish, femur distinctly tinted in red, femur strong and flat, legs without spines but with dense strong obtuse hairs, particularly on anterior tibia and metatarsus. Opisthosoma oblong oval, mat white, scattered with strong hairs.

Body length male: 1.8 mm
Female

Tarsus of female palp scattered with dense obtuse hairs. Prosoma light reddish-brown, oblong oval, scattered with hairs quite short and strong. Ocular area almost as wide as the front of Prosoma. Sternum and labium scattered with obtuse hairs. Eyes large and subequal, ringed with black, medians sub-contiguous, oblong, laterals sub-contiguous, oval, ALE a little larger than posteriors, nearly contiguous to the medians, PLE markedly distant from the medians. Clypeus more narrow than the diameter of anterior eyes. Legs not long, light brownish, femur distinctly tinted in red, femur strong and flat, legs without spines but with dense strong obtuse hairs, particularly on anterior tibia and metatarsus. Opisthosoma oblong oval, mat white, scattered with strong hairs.

Body length female: 1.8 mm
Additional information

In beech forests, holm oak forests, pine forests, among litter, also on road sides, on plane tree trunks, on beach, in sea shells.


No illustrations for females available.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, France (incl. Corsica), Algeria
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Females probably all the year, males in autumn.
Figures
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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 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

Saaristo M I, Marusik Y M (2009) A new genus and species of oonopid spider (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Ukraine. ZooKeys 24: 63-74 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