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

Histopona myops (Simon, 1885)

Description
Male

Retrolateral tibial apophysis almost trapezoid in posterior-retrolateral view. Conductor laminous, semicircular at base. Embolus whip-shaped, broadened at base. Prosoma and sternum yellow-orange. Chelicerae brown-orange. Legs yellow-orange. Opisthosoma white, with brown hairs.

Body length male: 6.7 mm
Female

Vulva with coiled copulatory ducts (3 coils).

Body length female: 7.6 mm
Additional information

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: not in Bulgaria (Deltshev & Petrov 2008)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): South-eastern Europe
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2002) |||
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

Brignoli P M (1984b) Ragni di Grecia XII. Nuovi dati su varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 91: 281-321 pdf

Deltshev C D (1985b) New data concerning cave spiders (Araneae) in Greece with description of a new Leptonetela (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 27: 41-45 pdf

Deltshev C, Petrov B (2008) The spiders (Araneae) in the caves of the western Rhodope Mountains (Bulgaria). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 60: 41-50 pdf

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 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 (2002) Contribution to the study of spiders (Araneae) on Šar Planina Mountain, north-west Macedonia. Bulletin of the Biology Students’ Research Society 2: 103-110 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
02-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
10-09-2018 Distribution update Detail
04-12-2014 Image insert
05-12-2013 Distribution update Detail
30-04-2013 Image insert