Mimetidae  Simon, 1881 / Ero  C. L. Koch, 1836   9 species

Ero flammeola  Simon, 1881

Description
Male

Palp male: tibia approximately 3.5 times as long as wide. Cymbium oval, flat, retrolaterally with small tooth. Conductor with prolateral furrow. Paracymbium broad, semicircular, with low hump. Prosoma brown-red, with a dark border wider backwards. Prosoma 1.6 mm long. Sternum brown-red. Legs brown-red, annulated. Opisthosomal tubercles very flat.

Body length male: 2.6 mm
Female

Epigyne forms a round tubercle, copulatory opening slit-shaped anteriorly. Vulva with diverging entrance ducts, ending in large, round receptacula. Prosoma with a wide dark border, and a simple median dark line on the thoracic part. Anterior eyes equal or the medians a little smaller. Opisthosoma with 2 obtuse tubercles.

Body length female: 2.25-3.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Canary Is., Algeria, Portugal to Greece (Corfu), Ukraine, Russia (Caucasus), Turkey, Israel
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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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019; Bosmans & Colombo, 2015) ||| Malta   (Rehfeldt & Cassar, 2024) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev & Shmatko, 2020b; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Özkütük et al., 2016a) ||| Ukraine   (Ponomarev & Shmatko, 2020b) |||
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, Colombo M (2015) New species of spiders from Sardinia (Araneae), with ecological notes on Lipocrea epeiroides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Araneidae). Arachnology 16: 319-332 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Bosselaers J (2018) Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Gavarres (Catalonia, Spain) and the adjacent coastal region - part I: 2012-2013. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society 33(Suppl.): 1-103 pdf

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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Lecigne S (2021a) A new species of Sintula (Linyphiidae), redescription of Brigittea innocens (Dictynidae) and eight spider species newly recorded for Turkey (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 11-34 pdf

Özkütük R S, Elverici M, Kunt K B (2016a) Ero flammeola Simon, 1881 (Araneae, Mimetidae); a new record for Turkish spider fauna. Anadolu University Journal of Science and Technology C4: 73-76 pdf

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 pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Ponomarev A V, Shmatko V Y (2020b) New species and new records of spiders (Aranei) in the south of Russia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 16: 299-309 pdf

Rehfeldt S, Cassar T (2024) A contribution to the arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) of the Maltese Islands, with two new records for Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 67: 18-47 pdf

Thaler K, Harten A van, Knoflach B (2004) Pirate spiders of the genus Ero C.L. Koch from southern Europe, Yemen, and Ivory Coast, with two new species (Arachnida, Araneae, Mimetidae). Denisia 13: 359-368 pdf

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 pdf

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