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Hersiliidae  Thorell, 1870 / Tama  Simon, 1882   1 species

Tama edwardsi  (Lucas, 1846)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006091

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Description
Male

Palp: cymbium with dense hairs, very characteristic, on the basal external part, embolus short, strongly sclerotized.

Female

Epigyne: very simple, without sclerotized plate, reduced to a pair of openings on the epigastric furrow.

Additional information

In plant communities with Quercus ilex and Juniperus oxycedrus. Altitude 630-800 m.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2021): Spain, Portugal, Algeria
Males in winter.
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Rheims & Brescovit 2004)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Rheims & Brescovit 2004)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Rheims & Brescovit 2004)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Rheims & Brescovit 2004)

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Leg I
(Rheims & Brescovit 2004)

Distribution List
Algeria   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco 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

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

Rheims C A, Brescovit A D (2004) Revision and cladistic analysis of the spider family Hersiliidae (Arachnida, Araneae) with emphasis on Neotropical and Nearctic species. Insect Systematics & Evolution 35: 189-239 pdf

WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (03.01.2021) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf