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Argyronetidae  Thorell, 1869 / Altella  Simon, 1885   7 species

Altella hungarica Loksa, 1981

Description

Conductor of male palp with pointed end, claw-like. Body colour light brownish yellow. Chelicerae dark brown

Body length male: 1.85 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Germany, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia (Europe, Caucasus)
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Distribution List
France   (Iorio et al., 2024) ||| Germany   (Kielhorn & Blick, 2024) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev et al., 2017c; Ponomarev, 2017; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019; Ponomarev et al., 2017c) |||
References

Iorio É, Déjean S, Hénon N, Danflous S, Edo M, Zimmermann C (2024) Premières observations d’Altella hungarica Loksa, 1981 en France (Araneae, Dictynidae) et autres araignées intéressantes de la zone d’adhésion du Parc national de Port-Cros (Var). Revue Arachnologique (2) 11: 9-20 pdf

Kielhorn K-H, Blick T (2024) Erstnachweis der Ungarischen Zwergkräuselspinne Altella hungarica (Araneae: Dictynidae) in Deutschland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 68: 6-9 pdf

Loksa I (1981b) The spider fauna of the Hortobágy National Park (Araneae). In Mahunka S (ed.), The fauna of the Hortobágy National Park, Volume 1. pp. 321-339. Akad. Kiadó Budapest pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Ponomarev A V (2017) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of steppe and meadow-steppe habitats of gully and ravine ecosystems of the valley of the Don River lower reaches. Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society in St. Petersburg 88: 118-131 pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Ponomarev A V, Prokopenko E V, Shmatko, V Y (2017c) New and interesting records of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from the southeastern part of the Russian Plain. Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society in St. Petersburg 88: 103-117 pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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