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

Histopona palaeolithica  (Brignoli, 1971)

Description
Female

Prosoma yellowish orange, slightly darker in cephalic region. Sternum yellowish. Opisthosoma yellowish-white.

Body length female: 4.85 mm
Additional information

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Naumova et al. (2016a): see H. petrovi
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy
Phenology
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Figures
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.

Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1971g) Contributo alla conoscenza degli Agelenidae Italiani (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 8: 57-142 pdf

Brignoli P M (1977b) Ragni d'Italia XXVII. Nuovi dati su Agelenidae, Argyronetidae, Hahniidae, Oxyopidae e Pisauridae cavernicoli ed epigei (Araneae). Quaderni del Museo di Speleologia "V. Rivera" 4: 3-117 pdf

Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1983) The genus Histopona Thorell (Araneae, Agelenidae) with description of two new cave-dwelling species. Mémoires de Biospéologie 10: 325-337 pdf

Mammola S, Milano F, Isaia M (2019a) Taxonomy, ecology and conservation of the cave-dwelling spider Histopona palaeolithica, with the description of H. petrovi sp. nov. (Araneae: Agelenidae). Journal of Arachnology 47: 317-325 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, 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

Naumova M V, Lazarov S, Petrov B, Deltshev C (2016a) New faunistic data on the cave-dwelling spiders in the Balkan Peninsula (Araneae). Ecologia Montenegrina 7: 425-438 pdf

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 pdf

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 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
11-12-2019 Image insert
11-12-2019 Distribution update Detail
16-10-2018 Image insert
12-11-2016 Distribution update Detail
16-04-2013 Datasheet update Detail
16-04-2013 Image insert