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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Episinus  Walckenaer, 1809   7 species

Episinus algiricus  Lucas, 1846

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007606

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Description
Male

Palp: tibia almost as long as wide in lateral view. Prosoma 1.2-1.6 mm long.

Body length male: 2.9-5 mm
Female

Epigyne: cavity longer than wide, without septum. Prosoma: colouration and pattern as E. angulatus, but lighter. Prosoma 1.4-1.7 mm long. Sternum brownish, with a faint median lighter band. Legs pale yellowish, with brown spots, scarcely annulated. Opisthosoma as E. angulatus.

Body length female: 4-5 mm
Additional information

In pine forests, garrigue and holm oak woods.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Northwest Africa, Malta?
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

species

female Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

species

female Epigyne
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

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female Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Febrer J B (2018) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). 2: “adenda et corrigenda”. Descripción de tres especies nuevas. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 33: 39-51 pdf

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

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

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

Dentici A (2018) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna (Arachnida Araneae) of the Maltese Archipelago. Biodiversity Journal 9: 85-88 pdf

Dentici A, Amata F C (2018) New faunistic data for the Sicilian arachnofauna (Arachnida Araneae). Biodiversity Journal 9: 271-276 pdf

Knoflach B, Rollard C, Thaler K (2009b) Notes on Mediterranean Theridiidae (Araneae) - II. ZooKeys 16: 227-264 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

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 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
09-01-2019 Distribution update Detail
16-10-2018 Distribution update Detail