Eratigena herculea (Fage, 1931)
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. 2018)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ribera & Barrientos 1986)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ribera & Barrientos 1986)
Tibial apophysis
(Ribera & Barrientos 1986)
Epigyne/vulva
(Brignoli 1977c)
Epigyne
(Fage 1931)
Eyes, dorsal view
(Fage 1931)
References
Brignoli P M (1977c) Sur quelques Tegenaria cavernicoles d'Espagne (Araneae, Agelenidae). In Comunicacions del 6è. Simposium d'Espeleologia, Terrassa 1977: 69-71
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: 91-291 
Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org
Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M (2018b) A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56: 301-316
Ribera C, Barrientos J A (1986) Sobre algunas tegenarias cavernicolas poco conocidas del Mediterraneo español. Mém Soc r ent Belg 33: 187-197
World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.09.2019) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 10-05-2016 | Datasheet update | Old value |