Segestria pusiola Simon, 1882
Description
Male
Palp: bulb longer and much broader than tarsus, the embolus nearly straight, a little longer than the lobe, obtuse at the top. Prosoma 3 mm long.
Female
Prosoma reddish-brown, with a borderline and some blackish streaks on cephalic part, covered with a very long whitish pubescence. Prosoma 3.3 mm long. Sternum brownish as coxa, darker in the front. Eyes: the medians oval, much larger than laterals, distance between medians and laterals about 0.5 diameter of medians. Chelicerae reddish-brown. Legs reddish-brown, femur, tibia and metatarsus with some annulations, metatarsus and tarsus I and II often uniformly darker, metatarsus I, II and III with 2 pairs of long lateral spines, a small apical spine and a median basal strong spine. Opisthosoma subcylindrical, light grey brownish, spotted with black on the sides, dorsally with a median lobed black band, ventrally with a thin brown line on both sides of spinnerets.
Body length female: 5-6 mmAdditional information
In forests.
Distribution
Figures
Habitus, dorsal view
(Simon 1893)
Distribution List
References
Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019
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 
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
Simon E (1893) Histoire naturelle das araignées. Paris, 1: 257-488
WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (03.01.2021) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
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