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

Dysdera flagellata Grasshoff, 1959

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004424

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Description
Male

Prosoma 3.6 mm long. Eyes: anteriors larger than posteriors, anteriors 0.7 diameter apart. Legs: femur IV with 3 dorsal spines, posterior tibia and metatarsus with more than 6 spines.

Body length male: 9 mm
Female

Characters as in male.

Body length female: 9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Grasshoff 1959)

species

male Tip of bulbus, dorsal view
(Alicata 1965)

species

male Bulbus, lateral view
(Alicata 1965)

species

male Bulbus, ventral view
(Alicata 1965)

species

male Bulbal apophysis
(Alicata 1965)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Grasshoff 1959)

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.

Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Alicata P (1965) Una nuova specie di Dysdera della Sila (Araneae, Dysderidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 4: 81-84 pdf

Grasshoff M (1959) Dysdera-Arten von Inseln der Mittelmeergebietes (Arachn., Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 40: 209-220 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

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
06-11-2014 Image insert
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