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Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Harpactocrates  Simon, 1914   12 species

Harpactocrates apennicola Simon, 1914

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004744

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Description
Male

Similar to H. drassoides. Male palp with straight bulbal neck. Prosoma 4.5-4.7 mm long.

Body length male: 10-13 mm
Female

Similar to H. drassoides. Prosoma 4.6-5.1 mm long. Eyes: PME smaller than the other eyes, anteriors one diameter apart, PLE less than one diameter from PME.

Body length female: 10-13 mm
Additional information

In mountains, coniferous forests, under stones and bark. Northern Apennines to Sea Alps. Altitude 500 m, 1100 m.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Italy
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Pesarini unpubl.)

species

male Pedipalp
(Alicata 1964b)

species

male Bulbus
(Thaler & Madlener 1979)

species

male Bulbus
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)

species

male Embolus
(Alicata 1964b)

species

female Aboral sclerite
(Thaler & Madlener 1979)

species

female Aboral sclerite
(Thaler & Madlener 1979)

species

female Chelicera, frontal view
(Alicata 1964b)

species

female Chelicera, ventral view
(Alicata 1964b)

species

female Chelicera, lateral view
(Alicata 1964b)

Distribution List
France   (no references) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Alicata P (1964b) Le specie italiane di Harpactocrates e di Parachtes n. gen. (Araneae, Dysderidae). Annuario dell'Istituto e Museo di Zoologia dell'Universita di Napoli 16 (3): 1-40 pdf

Deeleman-Reinhold C L, Deeleman P R (1988) Revision des Dysderinae (Araneae, Dysderidae), les espèces mediterranéennes occidentales exceptées. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 131: 141-269 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

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

Pesarini C (unpubl.)

Thaler K, Madlener I (1979) Die Harpactocrates-Arten der Westalpen (Arachnida: Aranei, Dysderidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 52: 359-367 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