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Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Dysdera  Latreille, 1804   220 species

Dysdera cribrata Simon, 1882

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004395

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Description
Male

Characters as in female.

Female

Prosoma dark red-brown, almost black, covered with punctures. Prosoma 2.7-3.7 mm long. Sternum almost smooth. Eyes: anteriors slightly larger than posteriors, anteriors one diameter apart. Legs: femur III and IV spineless, tibia III with 6 or 7 spines, tibia IV with one ventral spine, 2 or 3 apical spines, one prolateral and one retrolateral very small spine, metatarsus III and IV with numerous spines.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records from Georgia doubtful, therefore removed (Isaia & Chiarle 2015)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Italy, Andorra
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Simon 1914)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Isaia & Chiarle 2015)

species

male Apical part of bulbus
(Isaia & Chiarle 2015)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Isaia & Chiarle 2015)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Isaia & Chiarle 2015)

species

female Prosoma, dorsal view
(Isaia & Chiarle 2015)

species

female Sternum
(Isaia & Chiarle 2015)

species

female Epigastric region, ventral view
(Isaia & Chiarle 2015)

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.

Andorra   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Isaia M, Chiarle A (2015) Taxonomic notes on Cybaeus vignai Brignoli, 1977 (Araneae, Cybaeidae) and Dysdera cribrata Simon, 1882 (Araneae, Dysderidae) from the Italian Maritime Alps. Zoosystema 37: 45-56 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 (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 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

Updates
16-07-2020 Distribution update Detail
06-05-2015 Distribution update Detail
06-05-2015 Image insert