Uloboridae  Thorell, 1869 / Uloborus  Latreille, 1806   3 species

Uloborus gilvus (Blackwall, 1870)

Description
Male

Unknown.

Female

Epigyne: dark brown, with a strong process, directed obliquely downwards and backwards from their anterior margin, having its bifid extremity of a pale brownish-yellow hue. Prosoma long, rounded on the sides, glossy, convex, covered with whitish hairs, and with a median and 2 lateral longitudinal brown bands. Prosoma 2.5 mm long. Sternum dark brown. Eyes: lateral ocular quadrangle narrower in front. Legs pale brownish-yellow. Opisthosoma oval oblong, whitish, with a short, dark brown, slightly ramified band, whose anterior part is the broadest, ventrally with a brown area.

Body length female: 7 mm
Additional information

Species inquirenda per Pantini & Isaia (2019).

No illustrations provided by the author.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Omitted from the Italian checklist by Pantini & Isaia (2019)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy, Greece
Females in summer.
Figures
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.

Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

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 pdf

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 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
20-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
03-03-2022 Image insert