Rhomphaea nasica (Simon, 1873)
Description
Male
Prosoma: a high tubercle between the eyes, narrower at its base, with bristles at the tip. Prosoma 0.5-1.2 mm long. Opisthosoma very long as in female, but narrower.
Female
Epigyne: low longitudinal furrow. Prosoma brown, cephalic part raised, round without tubercle. Prosoma 1.5 mm long. Sternum whitish to brown, darker in the middle, with reddish spots. Legs whitish to light brown, with reddish spots. Opisthosoma very high and long, part behind the spinnerets much longer than the rest, more or less oblique, the shape of the opisthosoma variable, colouration light brown, sometimes silvery, with a dorsal reddish band, and a ventral brown band near the spinnerets.
Body length female: 6.2 mmAdditional information
In bushes and on oaks.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosselaers 2018)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Habitus, lateral view
(Wunderlich 1987)
Habitus, lateral view
(Bosselaers 2018)
Epigyne
(Lissner 2017b)
Epigyne
(Bosselaers 2018)
Epigyne
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Vulva, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Lissner 2017b)
Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Wunderlich 1987)
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.
References
Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019
Bosselaers J (2018) Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Gavarres (Catalonia, Spain) and the adjacent coastal region - part I: 2012-2013. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society 33(Suppl.): 1-103 
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Lissner J (2017b) A contribution to the knowledge of Rhomphaea L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae: Theridiidae) in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian regions. Arachnology 17: 287-293
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Pantini P, Sassu A, Serra G (2013) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida Araneae) of Sardinia. Biodiversity Journal 4: 3-104
Sánchez I, Bosmans R (2017) Novedades aracnológicas para la Provincia de Cádiz (S de España). Revista de la Sociedad Gaditana de Historia Natural 11: 33-52
Taberlet J-P (unpubl.)
WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (25.10.2023) doi: 10.24436/2
Wunderlich J (1987) Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen, 435 pp.