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Hersiliidae  Thorell, 1869 / 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 2024): Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Algeria
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Males in winter.
Figures
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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 Epigyne
(Mousaid & Bouihouline 2023)

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female Epigyne
(Lecigne et al. 2023)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Rheims & Brescovit 2004)

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female Habitus, dorsal view
(Mousaid & Bouihouline 2023)

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Leg I
(Rheims & Brescovit 2004)

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) ||| Morocco   (Mousaid & Bouihouline, 2023) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
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

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

Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2023) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – first note – on new records of cave spiders. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 66: 44-71 pdf

Mousaid M, Bouihouline H (2023) First record of Hersilia caudata Savigny, 1825, Tama edwardsi (Lucas, 1846) (Hersiliidae) and Mimetus laevigatus (Keyserling, 1863) (Mimetidae) from Morocco. Serket 19: 391-397 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 (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

Updates
17-01-2024 Image insert
04-10-2023 Image insert
04-10-2023 Distribution insert Detail