Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Tegenaria  Latreille, 1804   110 species

Tegenaria dalmatica Kulczyński, 1906

Description
Male

Sternum with pale median band and 3 pale dots on each side, not clearly delimited and sometimes fused together. Chelicerae brownish, promargin with 4, retromargin with 4-6 teeth. Opisthosoma: Anterior part with pale median band and big pale dots on both sides, mottled; pale dots continuing to posterior part in chevrons, posterior part with dark ground colour. Palp: Patellar apophysis absent. Retrotibial apophysis with lateral, dorsal and ventral branch. Lateral branch lamella-like, dorsal branch strongly sclerotized, horn-like, ventral apophysis developed as a big not strongly sclerotized bulge. Cymbial modifications absent.

prosoma length: 2.9-3.7 mm, prosoma width: 2.3-2.9 mm.

Female

Sternum with pale median band and 3 pale dots on each side, not clearly delimited and sometimes fused together. Chelicerae brownish, promargin with 4, retromargin with 4-6 teeth. Opisthosoma: Anterior part with pale median band and big pale dots on both sides, mottled; pale dots continuing to posterior part in chevrons, posterior part with dark ground colour. Epigyne: forming a membranous triangular or trapezoid plate. Anterior and lateral margin of atrium developed as a strongly sclerotized border. Spermathecae and/or copulatory ducts barely visible through plate. Epigynal teeth absent.

prosoma length: 5.1 mm, prosoma width: 4.0 mm.

Body length female: 4.75 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Mediterranean to Ukraine
Phenology
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Distribution List
Albania   (Vrenozi & Jäger, 2012) ||| Algeria   (Bolzern et al., 2013b; Beladjal et al., 2025) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Bolzern et al., 2013b) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| France   (Ledoux, 2004b) ||| France / Corsica   (Déjean & Canard, 2024) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019; Bosselaers, 2018) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Febrer & Barrientos, 2022) ||| Tunisia   (Bolzern et al., 2013b; Kmira et al., 2025) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (Demircan & Topçu, 2016) ||| Ukraine   (Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2007) |||
References

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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) 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

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

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

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Gaymard M, Lecigne S (2018) Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) du Gard et en particulier du massif des Gorges du Gardon (Occitanie, France). Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 1: 1-39 pdf

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Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

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