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Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Harpactea  Bristowe, 1939   221 species

Harpactea arguta (Simon, 1907)

Description
Male

Prosoma 2.1 mm long. Characters as in female.

Body length male: 3.6 mm
Female

Prosoma brownish, 2.2 mm long. Eyes: anteriors 0.3 diameter apart. Chelicerae with large black grains on exterior side. Legs: femur I with 2 spines, femur II with 3 spines, femur III with 7 spines, femur IV with 4 spines. Opisthosoma grey.

Body length female: 4.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Italy
Adults of both sexes in winter.
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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.

France   (no references) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1979d) Ragni d'Italia XXIX. Dysderidae nuovi o interessanti (Araneae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 111: 17-26 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 (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

Pesarini C (unpubl.)

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

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