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Eresidae  C. L. Koch, 1845 / Stegodyphus  Simon, 1873   4 species

Stegodyphus lineatus  (Latreille, 1817)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005886

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Description
Male

Colouration as in female, but opisthosoma with black stripes wider.

Body length male: 8-15 mm
Female

Prosoma uniformly dark red brown, with longitudinal rows of white hairs. Prosoma 5.1-8.1 mm long. Sternum and legs lighter than prosoma, with blackish and white hairs. Opisthosoma covered with white hairs, and with 2 longitudinal black stripes.

Body length female: 10-23 mm
Additional information

In sunny and dry areas, bushes, shrubs, Ombelliferae. This species has a colonial life style during the early stages, but adults are solitary. Young spiders remain gregarious when they come out of the egg sac. During the earliest stages the spiders are completely dependent on maternal feeding by regurgitation. Adults have solitary living, but sometimes adult males have been observed close to the female in the same web. Females have been reported to reach maturity after 9 moultings, and males after 7 to 9 moultings. Adult females may continue to moult.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2020): Southern Europe, North Africa to Tajikistan
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Miller et al. 2012)

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

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male Prosoma, frontal view
(Miller et al. 2012)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Miller et al. 2012)

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

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

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female Prosoma, frontal view
(Miller et al. 2012)

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

Distribution List
Algeria   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Armenia   (Otto, 2020) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2020) ||| Egypt   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Libya   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2019) |||
References

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae).
[N.B.: few records from this paper are not taken over and not commented] Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2019) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2019 [last updated 1 June 2019], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

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

Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

World Spider Catalog (2020) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.03.2020) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
01-12-2013 Distribution update Detail
19-11-2013 Image insert
09-04-2013 Distribution update Detail