Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Histopona  Thorell, 1870   23 species

Histopona hauseri (Brignoli, 1972)

Description
Male

Retrolateral tibial apophysis triangular in posterior-retrolateral view. Conductor laminous, curved, semicircular at base. Embolus whip-shaped, broadened at base. Prosoma brown-greyish, head region and sides darker. Chelicerae light brown. Sternum yellow-greyish, light brown near margin. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma dorsally and laterally grey, with dorsal markings, whitish ventrally.

Body length male: 7 mm
Female

Vulva with coiled copulatory ducts (6 coils).

Body length female: 9 mm
Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, North Macedonia
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2017) |||
References

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 pdf

Gasparo F (2005b) Note sulle Histopona Thorell, 1869, del gruppo myops di Grecia, con descrizione di una nuova specie cavernicola (Araneae, Agelenidae). Atti e Memorie, Commissione Grotte "Eugenio Boegan" 40: 17-35 pdf

Komnenov M (2017) New data on spider fauna (Araneae) of Shar Mountain, north-western Macedonia. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Ecologists of Macedonia, with international participation (Ohrid, 19th-22nd October 2016). Special issues of the Macedonian Ecological Society 13: 44-61 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, 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 pdf

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

Updates
01-06-2025 Distribution update Detail