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
"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
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 
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 (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
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
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 (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2