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Eresidae  C. L. Koch, 1845 / Eresus  Walckenaer, 1805   18 species

Eresus walckenaeri  Brullé, 1832

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005853

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Description
Male

Colouration as in E. kollari.

Female

Colouration as in E. kollari.

Body length female: up to 40 mm
Additional information

In dry grassland, Pinus forests, under stones.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2022): Mediterranean
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Miller et al. 2012)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Miller et al. 2012)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2020b)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Miller et al. 2012)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Miller et al. 2012)

Distribution List
Albania   (Kůrka et al., 2020) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2021a) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (Danışman et al., 2021a) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2021a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2021 [last updated 1 January 2021], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Kůrka A, Naumova M, Indzhov S, Deltshev C (2020) New faunistic and taxonomic data on the spider fauna of Albania (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 8-21 pdf

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 pdf

Miller J A, Griswold C E, Scharff N, Řezáč M, Szűts T, Marhabaie M (2012) The velvet spiders: an atlas of the Eresidae (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys 195: 1-144 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

WSC (2022) World Spider Catalog. Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (21.01.2022) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zamani A, Altin Ç, Szűts T (2020b) A black sheep in Eresus (Araneae: Eresidae): taxonomic notes on the ladybird spiders of Iran and Turkey, with a new species. Zootaxa 4851: 559-572 pdf

Updates
11-09-2020 Image insert
29-04-2020 Distribution insert Detail
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