Platnickina nigropunctata (Lucas, 1846)
Description
Male
Palp small. Characters as in female. Epigastric area bulging.
Body length male: 3 mmFemale
Prosoma whitish, with a black median band, black markings on sides, and a black borderline. Prosoma 1.2-1.4 mm long. Sternum whitish, with one anterior black spot, and 3 dark spots on each side. Chelicerae: promargin without teeth. Legs whitish, anterior femur mottled with black dots, tibia with an apical brown annulation, more or less clear, tibia with one dorsal bristle, metatarsus III with a trichobothrium. Opisthosoma whitish, mottled with black dots, dorsally with a white median band, or with 2 longitudinal series of black spots, ventrally with black spots.
Body length female: 3.1-3.4 mmAdditional information
In shrubs, bushes and in garrigue.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans & Gavalas 2023)
Epigyne
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)
Epigyne
(Lecigne 2018b)
Epigyne
(Bosmans & Gavalas 2023)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)
Sternum
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)
Habitus, lateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)
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
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Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124
Bosmans R, Gavalas I (2023) The spiders (Araneae) of the tiny Greek island Iraklia (Kiklades), with the descriptions of 5 new Harpactea species (Araneae: Dysderidae), 3 species new to Europe and 8 new to Greece. Parnassiana Archives 11 (Suppl. 1): 1-91
Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173
Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147
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Lecigne S (2018b) Récits de chasses aranéologiques récentes dans plusieurs départements de France. Redécouverte de Philodromus buchari Kubcová, 2004 (Araneae: Philodromidae) et confirmation de la présence de Theridion harmsi Wunderlich, 2011 (Araneae: Theridiidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 33: 59-99
Levy G, Amitai P (1982a) The comb-footed spider genera Theridion, Achaearanea and Anelosimus of Israel (Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of Zoology, London 196: 81-131
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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
Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2013) Spiders (Araneae) from Albania and Kosovo in the collection of Carl Friedrich Roewer. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 46: 17-26
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