Dysdera ancora Grasshoff, 1959
Description
Male
Prosoma red-brown, with fine grains. Prosoma 3.5 mm long. Eyes: anteriors 0.7 diameter apart, anteriors larger than PLE, PLE larger than PME. Legs: femur IV with 3 dorsal spines, posterior tibia with 4 to 6 spines, posterior metatarsus with more than 10 spines.
Body length male: 9.1 mmFemale
Characters as in male.
Body length female: 9.1 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Grasshoff 1959)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Grasshoff 1959)
Distribution List
References
Grasshoff M (1959) Dysdera-Arten von Inseln der Mittelmeergebietes (Arachn., Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 40: 209-220 
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
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
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 06-11-2014 | Image insert |