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Pholcidae  C. L. Koch, 1850 / Stygopholcus  Kratochvíl, 1932   4 species

Stygopholcus skotophilus  Kratochvíl, 1940

Description
Male

Palp 4.7 mm long.

Female

Epigyne red-brown, with a black pattern, larger than in S. absoloni. Prosoma light brownish, cephalic part with a brown marking, sternum darker, with reddish edges. Eyes ringed with black, PME about one diameter from PLE. Legs: femur and tibia with an apical whitish annulation. Opisthosoma whitish, with faint dark blotches.

Body length female: 6.5-6.9 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegowina, Montenegro
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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.

Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Komnenov, 2010; Huber et al., 2021) ||| Croatia   (Huber et al., 2021) ||| Montenegro   (Huber et al., 2021) |||
References

Huber B A, Pavlek M, Komnenov M (2021) Revision of the spider genus Stygopholcus (Araneae, Pholcidae), endemic to the Balkan Peninsula. European Journal of Taxonomy 752: 1-60 pdf

Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69 pdf

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 pdf

Senglet A (1971) Note sur les Pholcidae (Arachn.) de Grèce. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 44: 345-359 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
17-06-2021 Image insert
15-06-2021 Distribution insert Detail
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