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Oonopidae  Simon, 1890 / Oonops  Templeton, 1835   14 species

Oonops procerus Simon, 1882

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005040

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Description
Male

Palp: bulb large, pear-shaped, embolus short, strongly widened at the top, forming a cylindrical lobe. Legs: femur I without spines.

Body length male: 2-2.24 mm
Female

Vulva with 2 strong grooves on the surface of the epigyne. Prosoma light brownish-red. Eyes large, subequal. Clypeus a little more narrow than anterior eyes. Legs light grey-yellow, femur broad and flat, tibia I and II with 4 pairs of strong ventral spines, metatarsus I and II with 2 pairs of strong ventral spines, femur I with 3 or 4 prolateral spines, femur II, III and IV with only one dorsal spine, tibia and metatarsus III and IV with 2 pairs of lateral and 2 pairs of ventral spines. Opisthosoma oblong oval, bright orange-red. Cuticula with sparse strong hairs.

Body length female: 2.6-2.8 mm
Additional information

In fresh or dry habitats, decisuous, coniferous or mixed forests, among litter and moss, or under stones.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Spain
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Duffey & Brignoli 1981)

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male Pedipalp
(Breitling 2020)

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male Leg I, prolateral view
(Breitling 2020)

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female Vulva
(Duffey & Brignoli 1981)

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female Endogyne, dorsal view
(Breitling 2020)

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female Leg I, prolateral view
(Breitling 2020)

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.

France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| 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

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

Duffey E, Brignoli P M (1981) Two rare spiders from the Spanish Pyrenees (prov. Huesca). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5: 155-158 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 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
22-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
25-07-2020 Image insert
10-12-2013 Image insert