Hoplopholcus minotaurinus Senglet, 1971
Description
Male
Prosoma 1.7 mm long. Colouration as in female, but legs I and II darker. Femur I with a ventral series of 25 to 28 spines alternatively long and short.
Female
Prosoma yellowish, cephalic part brownish, 2.1 mm long. Sternum light brownish. Eyes: AME much more than one diameter from ALE. Legs brownish, metatarsus and tarsus darker. Opisthosoma very high, whitish to grey, suffused with black above spinners, ventrally with a faint median streak.
Additional information
In caves.
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Senglet 1971)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Huber 2020)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Huber 2020)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Huber 2020)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Senglet 1971)
Bulbus, dorsal view
(Huber 2020)
Bulbus, prolateral view
(Huber 2020)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Huber 2020)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Huber 2020)
Paracymbium, anterior view
(Senglet 1971)
Paracymbium, retrolateral view
(Senglet 1971)
Procursus, prolateral view
(Huber 2020)
Procursus, retrolateral view
(Huber 2020)
Cymbial apophysis
(Brignoli 1976b)
Eyes, frontal view
(Senglet 1971)
Eyes, dorsal view
(Senglet 1971)
Cheliceral apophysis
(Brignoli 1976b)
Chelicerae, frontal view
(Senglet 1971)
Chelicera, lateral view
(Senglet 1971)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Senglet 1971)
Epigyne
(Huber 2020)
Epigyne
(Huber 2020)
Vulva, ventral view
(Senglet 1971)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Senglet 1971)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Huber 2020)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Huber 2020)
Vulva, ventral view
(Huber 2020)
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.
References
Brignoli P M (1976b) Ragni di Grecia IX. Specie nuove o interessanti delle famiglie Leptonetidae, Dysderidae, Pholcidae ed Agelenidae (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 83: 539-578 
Huber B (2020) Revision of the spider genus Hoplopholcus Kulczyński (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4726: 1-94
Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13
Senglet A (1971) Note sur les Pholcidae (Arachn.) de Grèce. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 44: 345-359
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