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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

"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.

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