araneae - Orchestina longipes

Description

Male

Palp: bulb large, longer than tibia, at the top with a round protuberance, embolus tubular. Characters as in female.

Body length male: 1.15-1.3 mm

Female

Spermatheca circular, widely distant from the epigastric furrow. Prosoma pale orange, with a thin borderline. Sternum same colour, or a little lighter. Median eyes irregular rectangular, more narrow in front, eyes ringed with black. Legs same colour as prosoma. Opisthosoma lighter, especially below.

Body length female: 1.4-1.45 mm

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2023): Italy

Adults of both sexes in spring and winter.

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.

References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254

Brignoli P M (1967a) Su alcuni Oonopidae delle isole Ponziane. Fragmenta Entomologica 4: 141-148

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

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152

WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (14.02.2023) doi: 10.24436/2

Orchestina longipes Dalmas, 1922