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

Dysdera ventricosa Grasshoff, 1959

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004568

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Description
Male

Prosoma dark red-brown, covered with fine grains. Prosoma 2.7 mm long. Eyes: posteriors equal in size, anteriors one diameter apart, larger than posteriors. Legs: femur IV with 2 dorsal spines, posterior tibia with 7 spines, posterior metatarsus with 10 or more spines.

Body length male: 4.6 mm
Female

Characters as in male.

Body length female: 5.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Grasshoff 1959)

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

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
09-04-2013 Distribution update Detail