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Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Dysderocrates  Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman, 1988   8 species

Dysderocrates storkani (Kratochvíl, 1935)

Description
Male

Palp: bulb 1.7 mm long. Prosoma 5.3 mm long.

Body length male: 10.9 mm
Female

Prosoma reddish or light brown, smooth, 5.3 mm long. Eyes: anteriors one diameter apart, PLE 0.5 diameter from PME. Legs pale reddish, femur I with 5 to 8 spines, femur II with 3 to 6 spines in 2 series, femur III with one to 7 spines, femur IV with 6 to 11 spines in 2 series.

Body length female: 12.3 mm
Additional information

Usually in beech and oak forests, in litter or under stones, also in caves. Altitude 800-1500 m.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia
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Distribution List
Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Croatia   (Grbac et al., 2019) ||| Kosovo   (Geci & Naumova, 2021b) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2017) ||| Serbia   (Ćurčić et al., 2003) |||
References

Ćurčić B P M, Deltshev C C, Blagoev G A, Ćurčić S B, Tomić V T (2003) On the diversity of some spiders (Aranea: Arachnida) from Serbia. Archives of Biological Sciences Belgrade 55: 23-31 pdf

Deeleman-Reinhold C L, Deeleman P R (1988) Revision des Dysderinae (Araneae, Dysderidae), les espèces mediterranéennes occidentales exceptées. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 131: 141-269 pdf

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

Geci D, Naumova M (2021b) A preliminary checklist of the spiders of Kosovo (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologia Balkanica, Special Edition 4: 11-28 pdf

Geci D, Naumova M, Ibrahimi H, Grapci-Kotori L, Gashi A, Bilalli A, Musliu M (2023) Contribution to spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) from Bjeshkët e Nemuna mountains (Kosovo). Natura Croatica 32: 525-547 pdf

Grbac I, Katušić L, Lukić M (2019) Catalogue of spiders (Araneae) deposited in the Croatian Natural History Museum. Natura Croatica 28: 185-269 pdf

Komnenov M (2017) New data on spider fauna (Araneae) of Shar Mountain, north-western Macedonia. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Ecologists of Macedonia, with international participation (Ohrid, 19th-22nd October 2016). Special issues of the Macedonian Ecological Society 13: 44-61 pdf

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 pdf

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 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

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