Maimuna vestita (C. L. Koch, 1841)
Description
Male
Prosoma brown-yellow, eye region blackish. Palp: Femur with large retrolateral scale. No patellar or tibial apophysis. Patella with 2 dorsal spines. Tibia with long hairs and 4 spines. Conductor very complicated, ending in 3 large, bent apophyses.
prosoma length: 5.0 mm, prosoma width: 3.2 mm.
Body length male: 9 mmFemale
Prosoma brown-yellow, eye region blackish. Epigyne: large anterior cavity, wider and deepest posteriorly, bordered by stronger sclerotized parts. Posterior transversal domed area which is darker at the central longitudinal axe. Characteristic vulva.
prosoma length: 3.8 mm, prosoma width: 2.8 mm.
Body length female: 7.4 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1996)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1996)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2013)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne 2013)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Dimitrov 2022)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Dimitrov 2022)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Dimitrov 2022)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Dimitrov 2022)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kaya et al. 2023a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kaya et al. 2023a)
Embolic division
(Levy 1996)
Epigyne
(Brignoli 1976b)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1996)
Epigyne
(Dimitrov 2022)
Vulva
(Brignoli 1976b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1996)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Dimitrov 2022)
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
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) 
Blauwe R de (1980a) Revision de la famille des Agelenidae (Araneae) de la région Mediterranéenne (2e partie). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 52(1): 1-54
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
Brignoli P M (1976b) Ragni di Grecia IX. Specie nuove o interessanti delle famiglie Leptonetidae, Dysderidae, Pholcidae ed Agelenidae (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 83: 539-578
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 22 July 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Deltshev C D, Paraschi L (1990) A contribution to the study of spiders (Araneae: Dysderidae, Salticidae, Agelenidae) in Greece, with a description of a new species (Malthonica spinipalpis Deltshev, sp. n. Agelenidae). Biologia Gallo-Hellenica 17: 3-12
Dimitrov D (2022) A review of the genus Maimuna Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae, Agelenidae) in Turkey, with a description of a new species. Zootaxa 5124: 383-390
Doncea A, Pintilioaie A-H, Neagoe M A, Urák I (2024) Caught in the web: three new crawly records for the Romanian arachnofauna found at south-eastern part of Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle «Grigore Antipa» 67 (Supplement 1): 117
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
Kaya R S, Zamani A, Yağmur E A, Marusik Y M (2023a) A new genus of Textricini Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Anatolia. ZooKeys 1151: 31-45
Kovblyuk M M (2014) Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Crimea: faunogenesis and hypothesis of Pontida. Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka 5(2): 29-53
Lecigne S (2013) Contribution à l’inventaire aranéologique de Corfou (Grèce) (Arachnida, Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28: 177-191
Levy G (1996) The agelenid funnel-weaver family and the spider genus Cedicus in Israel (Araneae, Agelenidae and Cybaeidae). Zoologica Scripta 25: 85-122
Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna].
Stefanovska D, Naumova M, Prelik D, Deltshev C, Lazarov S (2008) Spiders from the Skopje region: a faunistic and zoogeographical analysis. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 19: 35-49
Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2012) A faunistic study on ground-dwelling spiders (Araneae) in the Tirana district, Albania. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 81-87
WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2