Dysdera bicornis Fage, 1931
Description
Male
Coloration as in females.
Body length male: 12 mmFemale
Prosoma and sternum reddish brown, with fine grains. Eyes: posteriors equal in size, anteriors scarcely less than one diameter apart, larger than posteriors. Chelicerae with 3 contiguous teeth and one distal strong tooth. Legs: femur I and II with one spine, femur III with 3 spines, femur IV with about 10 spines, posterior tibia and metatarsus with numerous spines.
Body length female: 12 mmAdditional information
In caves.
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Fage 1931)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Fage 1931)
Epigyne
(Barrientos et al. 2019d)
Vulva
(Barrientos et al. 2019d)
Distribution List
References
Barrientos J A, García-López V, Soria F-J (2019d) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) del complejo Hundidero-Gato (Málaga, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 35: 3-8 
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Fage L (1931) Araneae, 5e série, précédée d'un essai sur l'évolution souterraine et son déterminisme. In Biospeologica, LV. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 71: 99-291
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
Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
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