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Oonopidae  Simon, 1890 / Oonops  Templeton, 1835   14 species

Oonops tubulatus Dalmas, 1916

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005062

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Description
Male

Palp: embolus long and curved. Characters as in female.

Body length male: 1.6-1.64 mm
Female

Spermatheca small, widely distant from the epigastric furrow. Prosoma orange-red, 0.86 mm long. Eyes large, the anteriors contiguous to the front of prosoma. Legs: orange-red, tibia I and II with 4 pairs of ventral spines. Cuticula with sparse thin hairs.

Body length female: 1.9-2.1 mm
Additional information

Littoral, under stones, in damp areas.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Algeria
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Males in autumn and winter, females in spring.
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Machado 1941)

species

male Embolus, retrolateral view
(Machado 1941)

species

female Vulva
(Machado 1941)

species

female Leg I, prolateral view
(Machado 1941)

species

female Tarsal claw of leg II
(Machado 1941)

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) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (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

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 (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

Machado A de B (1941) Araignées nouvelles pour la faune portugaise (II). Memorias e Estudos do Museu Zoologico da Universidade de Coimbra 117: 1-60 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
09-11-2015 Image insert