Robertus cardesensis Dresco, 1959
Description
Male
Unknown.
Female
Prosoma 1.5 mm long. Prosoma pigmented, eyes ringed with black. Eyes: AME more than one diameter apart and from ALE, posterior eyes all 1.5 PME diameter apart, AME 1.7 diameter from PME. Chelicerae with one tooth on posterior margin, and 3 teeth on anterior margin. Legs: colouration as prosoma. Opisthosoma white, with sparse hairs.
Additional information
Only one female known. In cave.
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Vulva
(Dresco 1959a)
Eyes, frontal view
(Dresco 1959a)
Chelicera, posterior view
(Dresco 1959a)
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
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 
Dresco E (1959a) Sur quelques espèces du genre Robertus (Araneae, Theridiidae). Description de R. alpinus et R. cardesensis spp. nov. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 31: 242-247
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
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
Updates
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