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Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Tegenaria  Latreille, 1804   106 species

Tegenaria racovitzai  Simon, 1907

Description
Male

Retrolaterale Tibialapophyse with 3 branches, ventral branch a long, drawn-out bulge, lateral branch much smaller, distally pointed, dorsal branch strongly sclorotized. Conductor reduced to a lamelliform appendage. Prosoma length: 4.22 mm, prosoma width: 2.98 mm.

Female

Epigyne with sharply pointed "pseudo teeth", posterior sclerite of epigyne with convex anterior margin. Prosoma length: 3.66 mm, prosoma width: 2.65 mm.

Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, France
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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.

France   (no references) ||| Spain   (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

Déjean S (2012b) Tegenaria racovitzai Simon, 1907 (Araneae, Agelenidae). Synthèse sur une espèce nouvelle pour la faune de France. Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 82: 42-46 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

Simon E (1937) Les arachnides de France 6 (5). Paris (Roret): 979-1298 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
22-08-2014 Image insert
08-07-2014 Image insert
04-02-2014 Datasheet update Detail
07-01-2014 Distribution update Detail