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Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Eratigena  Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi, 2013   22 species

Eratigena herculea  (Fage, 1931)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021240

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Description
Male

Eyes very reduced and without pigmentation. Anterior and posterior median eyes barely visible, only 0.02 mm in diameter. Lateral eyes about 0.05 mm in diameter. Opisthosoma cylindrical. Palp: median apophysis protruding, longer than wide, spoon-like, connected to tegulum by a membrane.

Prosoma length: 2.4 mm, prosoma width: 1.8 mm.

Female

Prosoma not darkened. Sternum with a weakly expressed pale median region. Opisthosoma brown-yellowish, only cardiac mark darker. Legs without a pattern. Eyes moderately reduced in size. Epigyne with a distinct posterior sclerite, forming a strongly sclerotized and protruding pocket-like structure.

Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain (mainland, Ibiza)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ribera & Barrientos 1986)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ribera & Barrientos 1986)

species

male Tibial apophysis
(Ribera & Barrientos 1986)

species

female Epigyne/vulva
(Brignoli 1977d)

species

female Epigyne
(Fage 1931)

species

female Eyes, dorsal view
(Fage 1931)

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

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

Brignoli P M (1977d) Sur quelques Tegenaria cavernicoles d'Espagne (Araneae, Agelenidae). Comunicacions del 6è. Simposium d'Espeleologia, Terrassa 1977: 69-71 pdf

Fage L (1931) Araneae, 5e série, précédée d'un essai sur l'évolution souterraine et son déterminisme. In Biospeologica, LV. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 71: 99-291 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

Ribera C, Barrientos J A (1986) Sobre algunas tegenarias cavernicolas poco conocidas del Mediterraneo español. Mémoires de la Société Royal Belge d'Entomologie 33: 187-197 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
10-05-2016 Datasheet update Detail