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Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Eratigena  Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi, 2013   26 species

Eratigena balearica (Brignoli, 1978)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021052

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Description
Male

Prosoma length: 2.38 mm.

Body length male: 4.97 mm
Female

Prosoma yellow-brownish, with brown radial lines. Prosoma length: 2.32 mm. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin and 4 teeth on retromargin, followed by saw-like arranged denticles. Sternum yellowish. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark grey, with 3 pairs of fused spots.

Body length female: 6.21 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain (Balearic Is.)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Barrientos & Febrer 1986)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Barrientos & Febrer 1986)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bolzern et al. 2013b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bolzern et al. 2013b)

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male Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Febrer & Barrientos 2021)

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male Epigyne, retrolateral view
(Bolzern et al. 2013b)

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male Eyes, dorsal view
(Barrientos & Febrer 1986)

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male Habitus, dorsal view
(Barrientos & Febrer 1986)

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female Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Brignoli 1978e)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Barrientos & Febrer 1986)

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female Epigyne
(Febrer & Barrientos 2021)

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female Vulva
(Barrientos & Febrer 1986)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Bolzern et al. 2013b)

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.

Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Febrer J B (1986) Arañas de Menorca. I. Agelenidae (Araneae). Descripción del macho de Malthonica balearica Brignoli, 1978. Orsis 2: 121-129 pdf

Bolzern A, Burckhardt D, Hänggi A (2013b) Phylogeny and taxonomy of European funnel-web spiders of the Tegenaria-Malthonica complex (Araneae: Agelenidae) based upon morphological and molecular data. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168: 723-848 pdf

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

Brignoli P M (1978e) Quelques notes sur les Agelenidae, Hahniidae, Oxyopidae et Pisauridae de France et d'Espagne (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 85: 265-294 pdf

Febrer J B, Barrientos J A (2021) Arañas (Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España), 4. Estudio del encinar de Alfurí y nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 38: 109-120 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
07-07-2021 Image insert
08-12-2015 Image insert