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Pholcidae  C. L. Koch, 1850 / Spermophorides  Wunderlich, 1992   8 species

Spermophorides elevata  (Simon, 1873)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003937

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Description
Male

Palp: tibia nearly as broad as long. Prosoma 1 mm long. Similar to female, but legs not annulated.

Body length male: 2 mm
Female

Prosoma whitish, with a black median streak, this streak is divided anteriorly into 2 branches. Prosoma 1.2 mm long. Sternum black, often with light spots. Legs light yellowish, with faint annulations. Opisthosoma much higher than long, whitish, mottled with dark spots, ventrally brownish with 2 black lines. Spinnerets surrounded with black.

Body length female: 2.5 mm
Additional information

Under stones, in dry detritus, rarely in bushes.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2020): Western Mediterranean
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Senglet 1973b)

species

male Paracymbium, retrolateral view
(Senglet 1973b)

species

male Paracymbium, anterior view
(Senglet 1973b)

species

male Paracymbium, prolateral view
(Senglet 1973b)

species

male Chelicera, frontal view
(Senglet 1973b)

species

male Chelicera, lateral view
(Senglet 1973b)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Senglet 1973b)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Senglet 1973b)

Distribution List
France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

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

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

Senglet A (1973b) Note sur les Spermophora (Araneae: Pholcidae) méditerranéens. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 45: 307-319 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
05-10-2013 Image insert
15-04-2013 Distribution update Detail