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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Dipoena  Thorell, 1869   15 species

Dipoena umbratilis (Simon, 1873)

Description
Male

Similar to female.

Body length male: 2.1-2.5 mm
Female

Prosoma and sternum reddish brown. Eyes: PME farther from each other than from PLE. Clypeus concave. Legs red-brown, coxa, patella and tarsus lighter, femur and tibia apically darker. Opisthosoma brown, with dorsally 4 or 5 transversal whitish stripes, and often with 2 small whitish spots in the front.

Body length female: 2.5 mm
Additional information

In forests, among moss.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Record from Italy based on a misidentification (Pantini & Isaia, 2018), but found by IJland & Helsdingen (2019)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Azores, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Algeria
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Machado A de B (1949) Araignées nouvelles pour la faune portugaise (III). Memorias e Estudos do Museu Zoologico da Universidade de Coimbra 191: 1-69 pdf

Simon E (1873a) Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. (2e mémoire). Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 5: 187-351 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
12-03-2019 Datasheet update Detail
12-03-2019 Distribution update Detail
09-08-2018 Image insert
09-11-2015 Image insert
05-03-2015 Distribution update Detail