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

Dysdera nubila Simon, 1882

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004507

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Description
Male

Prosoma 2.9 mm long.

Body length male: 6.5 mm
Female

Prosoma reddish orange, with fine and dense grains. Prosoma 2.5-3.2 mm long. Eyes: anteriors slightly more than one diameter apart. Legs: femur I with one or 2 spines, femur II spineless, or with 1 or 2 spines, femur III spineless, femur IV with 2 or 3 spines, posterior tibia with 6 or more spines, posterior metatarsus with numerous spines.

Body length female: 6.5 mm
Additional information

In litter. Altitude up to 1100 m.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Portugal: in Cardoso (2000) with ?, not in Cardoso & Morano (2010), therefore Le Peru (2011) not taken over
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (Corsica), Italy
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Grasshoff 1959)

species

male Apex of bulbus
(Alicata 1973)

species

male Bulbus, anterior view
(Alicata 1973)

species

male Bulbus, median view
(Alicata 1973)

species

female Vulva
(Alicata 1973)

species

female Anterior receptaculum
(Alicata 1973)

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.

France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Alicata P (1973) I Dysderidae (Araneae) delle Eolie, delle Egadi e di Ustica. Lavori della Società Italiana di Biogeografia (N.S.) 3: 341-353 pdf

Cardoso P (2000) Portuguese spiders (Araneae): a preliminary checklist. Ekológia (Bratislava) 19, Suppl. 3: 19-29 pdf

Cardoso P, Morano E (2010) The Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 2495: 1-52 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 (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 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
17-06-2020 Datasheet update Detail
17-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
06-11-2014 Image insert
02-10-2014 Image insert
09-04-2013 Distribution update Detail