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Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Benoitia  Lehtinen, 1967   3 species

Benoitia lepida  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020932

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Description
Male

Pedipalp: Patella with broad apophysis. Winding conductor recurves on itself.

Body length male: 4.1-7.8 mm
Female

Epigynal groove divided by narroe median septum.

Body length female: 5.0-9.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, North Africa, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Yemen, Saudi-Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1996)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1996)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(de Blauwe 1980b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(de Blauwe 1980b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Al-Khazali 2018)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Al-Khazali 2018)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Al-Khazali 2018)

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male Bulbus, prolateral-ventral view
(de Blauwe 1980b)

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male Patella and tibia, dorsal view
(de Blauwe 1980b)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1996)

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female Epigyne
(de Blauwe 1980b)

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female Epigyne
(Al-Khazali 2018)

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female Epigyne
(Denis 1966a)

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female Epigyne
(Denis 1966a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1996)

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female Vulva
(de Blauwe 1980b)

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.

Algeria   (Levy, 1996; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (Levy, 1996) ||| Libya   (Levy, 1996) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Al-Khazali A M (2018) The first record of family Agelenidae from Iraq (Arachnida: Araneae). Serket 16: 60-65 pdf

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Blauwe R de (1980b) Revision de la famille des Agelenidae (Araneae) habitant la région Mediterranéenne (3e partie). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 52(11): 1-28 pdf

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 pdf

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

Denis J (1966a) Les araignées du Fezzân. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle d'Afrique du Nord 55: 103-144 pdf

Levy G (1996) The agelenid funnel-weaver family and the spider genus Cedicus in Israel (Araneae, Agelenidae and Cybaeidae). Zoologica Scripta 25: 85-122 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
26-10-2023 Image insert
11-04-2022 Distribution update Detail
06-11-2018 Image insert
09-04-2013 Image insert
26-03-2013 Datasheet update Detail
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