Oonopidae  Simon, 1890 / Oonopinus  Simon, 1893   2 species

Oonopinus ionicus Brignoli, 1979

Description
Male

Prosoma 0.57 mm long. Characters as in female.

Body length male: 1.4 mm
Female

Prosoma yellow, more or less light, smooth, hairless, oblong. Prosoma 0.52 mm long. Sternum oblong oval, smooth, yellow, with some hairs. Eyes in a transverse group, PME dark, a little larger than the others, all eyes ringed with black, posterior row strongly recurved. Labium clearly longer than wide. Legs yellow, pubescent, without spines, femur subequal in length. Opisthosoma white, pubescent, oblong.

Body length female: 1.2 mm
Additional information

In pine forests, olive grove, litter under Cupressus, meadow with olive trees.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece
Males and females in spring.
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.

Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) |||
References

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Brignoli P M (1979b) Ragni di Grecia XI. Specie nuove o interessanti, cavernicole ed epigee. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 86: 181-202 pdf

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

Updates
19-09-2025 Distribution update Detail