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 mmFemale
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 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Thaler et al. 2004)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler et al. 2004)
Conductor
(Thaler et al. 2004)
Cymbium
(Thaler et al. 2004)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Thaler et al. 2004)
Epigyne, dorsal view
(Thaler et al. 2004)
Epigyne, aboral view
(Thaler et al. 2004)
Epigyne, aboral view
(Thaler et al. 2004)
Epigyne
(Bosselaers 2018)
Epigyne
(Ponomarev & Shmatko 2020b)
Epigyne
(Lecigne 2021a)
Epigyne, aboral view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Vulva, aboral view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Vulva, ventral view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Distribution List
References
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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
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
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
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
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
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