Oonopidae  Simon, 1890 / Oonops  Templeton, 1835   14 species

Oonops placidus Dalmas, 1916

Description
Male

Palp: tarsus oblong oval. Characters as in female.

Body length male: 1.34-1.4 mm
Female

Spermatheca very small, widely distant from epigastric furrow. Prosoma and legs bright orange-red. Legs: tibia I and II with 5 pairs of ventral spines, metatarsus I and II with 5 or 6 ventral spines in 2 rows, femur I and II with 5 or 6 ventral spines in 2 rows, sometimes 4 tiny spines, or spines absent. Opisthosoma pink.

Body length female: 1.8-2 mm
Additional information

Among litter, in woods, scrublands, juniper heaths.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 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 (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Thaler K (1981c) Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Nordtirol (Österreich) (Arachnida: Aranei). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 61: 105-150 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
22-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
11-09-2014 Image insert