Oonopidae  Simon, 1890 / Orchestina  Simon, 1882   11 species

Orchestina ebriola Brignoli, 1972

Description
Male

Palp: easily distinguishable from other Mediterranean species, tibia very broad, bulb characteristic, pear-shaped, embolus conical, broad at the base. Prosoma orange, with a thin brown borderline and a very faint reticulate pattern. Prosoma 0.47 mm long. Sternum light yellow. Eyes: anterior row straight, median eyes ringed with black, lateral eyes almost circular, median eyes larger than laterals, PLE larger than ALE. Legs light yellowish. Opisthosoma red-purple, ventrally lighter.

Body length male: 1 mm
Female

Unknown.

Additional information

In Eucalyptus forests, in litter.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Omitted from the Bulgarian checklist (Deltshev, pers. comm.)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece
Phenology
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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 (1972c) Eine neue Orchestina aus Griechenland (Arachnida: Araneae: Oonopidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 53: 287-289 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
13-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
10-03-2015 Distribution update Detail
06-11-2014 Image insert