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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Episinus  Walckenaer, 1809   7 species

Episinus cavernicola  (Kulczyński, 1897)

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 1.1 mm.

Female

Epigyne a large, deep cavity with strongly sclerotised margin. Copulatory ducts short, their lumen narrow and completely sclerotised. Prosoma brown with dark margins and median band. Sternum brown. Legs yellow-brown, femur and tibia with 2 dark annulations, metatarsus distal with 1 faint annulation. Opisthosoma rounded, without tubercles, spotted (after Knoflach & Thaler 2000)

Body length female: 3.4 mm
Additional information

In caves, also among litter and stones at base of rockwall in riverbed.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Croatia, Slovenia
Phenology
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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.

Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) |||
References

Chyzer C, Kulczyński W (1897) Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, pp. 147-366, pl. 6-10. pdf

Knoflach B, Thaler K (2000) Notes on Mediterranean Theridiidae (Araneae)-I. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 78: 411-442 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 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

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, 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

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. 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
06-01-2016 Image insert