Orchestina simoni Dalmas, 1916
Description
Male
Palp: bulb short and very widened, embolus cylindrical, straight, the style sticks out the embolus an half its length. Characters as in female.
Body length male: 1.15-1.30 mmFemale
Spermatheca simple, circular, contiguous to the epigastric furrow. Prosoma pale, sometimes with a thin borderline. Median eyes rectangular, eyes ringed with black. Labium longer than wide. Opisthosoma with a typical colouration, dorsally a large chevron.
Body length female: 1.40-1.45 mmAdditional information
Littoral, rocks with halophytes.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lissner 2022a)
Bulbus
(Brignoli 1967a)
Epigyne
(Lissner 2022b)
Vulva
(Brignoli 1974b)
Spinnerets
(Brignoli 1974b)
Epigastric region, ventral view
(Lissner 2022a)
Distribution List
References
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Brignoli P M (1967a) Su alcuni Oonopidae delle isole Ponziane. Fragmenta Entomologica 4: 141-148
Brignoli P M (1974b) Ragni di Grecia VI. Specie nuove o interessanti delle isole Ionie e della Morea (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 81: 155-175
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
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
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Lissner J (2022a) A note on Orchestina setosa and O. simoni males (Oonopidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 153: 2-4
Lissner J (2022b) Corrigendum to "A note on Orchestina setosa and O. simoni males (Oonopidae)". Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 154: 12-13
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2