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Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Dasumia  Thorell, 1875   15 species

Dasumia kusceri (Kratochvíl, 1935)

Description

Prosoma dark reddish brown. Sternum reddish. Chelicerae dark reddish brown, each margin with 2 teeth. Legs: anteriors reddish, posteriors light reddish, femur I and II with 2 to 4 spines, femur III and IV with numerous spines, patella I, II and IV spineless, patella III with one apical spine, tibia I and II spineless, tibia III and IV with numerous spines, tarsus with 3 claws, without claw tuft.

Body length male: 6.8-7.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Kosovo, North Macedonia, Bulgaria
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"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.

Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Greece  Removed (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Kosovo   (Geci et al., 2025c) ||| North Macedonia   (Geci & Naumova, 2021b; Komnenov, 2014) ||| Serbia   (Deltshev et al., 2003b) |||
References

Alicata P (1966b) Il genere Dasumia Thorell (Araneae, Dysderidae), sua nuova definizione e revisione delle specie italiane. Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 14: 465-484 pdf

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Deltshev C D, Ćurčić B P M, Blagoev GA (2003b) The spiders of Serbia. Inst. Zoology, Fac. Biology, Belgrade & Inst. Zoology, Bulg. Acad. Sci., Sofia. 832 pp.

Geci D, Ibrahimi H, Strohmeier T, Koblmüller S, Bilalli A, Zamani A (2025c) First DNA barcoding of Dysderidae (Araneae) from Kosovo, with new records and the description of a new species of Harpactea Bristowe, 1939. Zootaxa 5653: 486-500 pdf

Geci D, Naumova M (2021b) A preliminary checklist of the spiders of Kosovo (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologia Balkanica, Special Edition 4: 11-28 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Naumova M, Indzhov S, Dimitrov D, Deltshev C (2019b) Redescription of Dasumia kusceri (Kratochvíl, 1935), with the first description of the female and notes on the genus Dasumia Thorell, 1875 (Araneae: Dysderidae) in Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 71: 467-472 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

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