araneae - Theonoe major

Description

Male

Unknown.

Female

Prosoma flat, yellowish, sometimes with brownish markings, a very thin black borderline. Prosoma 1-1.2 mm long. Sternum heart-shaped, yellowish, with blackish markings, truncated behind, coxae IV more than one diameter apart. Eyes: AME ringed with black, smaller than the other eyes, lateral eyes contiguous, PME a little more than one diameter apart, median ocular quadrangle much wider behind than in front. Chelicerae orange yellow, with 3 small teeth on anterior margin, and 3 small denticles on posterior margin. Legs yellow, metatarsus and tarsus orange, legs very thin and very long, tarsus about a half the length of metatarsus. Opisthosoma oval, yellowish grey to blackish, often with a wide median lighter band.

Body length female: 2.5-2.8 mm

Additional information

In cave.

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2025): Spain

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.

References

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

Denis J (1961a) Quelques araignées de Minorque. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 99: 235-243

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

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2

Theonoe major Denis, 1961