Tegenaria femoralis Simon, 1873
Description
Male
Palp: Row of several dorsal trichobothria on cymbium. Tegular apophysis absent. Dorsal branch of retrotibial apophysis strongly protruding and pointed. Ventral branch of retrotibial apophysis distally not protruding, terminal end of conductor bifid.
prosoma length: 4.7 mm, prosoma width: 3.7 mm.
Body length male: 8 mmFemale
Row of several dorsal trichobothria present on palp tarsus. Epigyne median plate distinctly connected to epigynal plate anteriorly. Median plate not protruding, subrectangular, pocket-like copulatory openings visible anteriorly of median plate.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kraus 1955)
Conductor
(Wunderlich 1995a)
Tibial apophysis
(Wunderlich 1995a)
Tibial apophysis
(Kraus 1955)
Epigyne
(Brignoli 1971c)
Epigyne/vulva
(Kraus 1955)
Epigyne
(Kraus 1955)
Vulva
(Brignoli 1971c)
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
Brignoli P M (1971c) Contributo alla conoscenza dei ragni cavernicoli della Jugoslavia. Fragmenta Entomologica 7: 103-119 
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
Kraus O (1955) Spinnen von Korsika, Sardinien und Elba (Arach., Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 36: 371-394
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Wunderlich J (1995a) Zur Kenntnis der Endemiten, zur Evolution und zur Biogeographie der Spinnen Korsikas und Sardiniens, mit Neubeschreibungen (Arachnida: Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 353-383