Argyronetidae  Thorell, 1869 / Devade  Simon, 1885   3 species

Devade indistincta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Description
Male

Prosoma pale olive or reddish, with brown border, 5 fine, brown, connected longitudinal lines on pars cephalica. Opisthosoma dorsally grey-greenish, with lighter areas. Palp long, patella more than twice as long as wide, tibia as long as patella. Bulb characteristic.

Female

Prosoma pale olive or reddish, with brown border, 5 fine, brown, connected longitudinal lines on pars cephalica. Opisthosoma dorsally grey-greenish, with lighter areas. Cribellum not divided. Epigyne: large, indistinct, brown plate, anterior border rebordered. prosoma length: 1.7 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Mediterranean
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Distribution List
Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Azerbaijan  Removed (Otto, 2022; Nuruyeva & Zamani, 2025) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Libya   (Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Kaya et al., 2026) ||| Ukraine  Removed (Kovblyuk & Kastrygina, 2015b) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Uribarri I, García-Sarrión R, Enríquez M L, Giralt D (2016) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) del Pla de Lleida (Lleida, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 28: 91-101 pdf

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

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

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 pdf

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (2000) A review of the genus Devade (Aranei, Dictynidae) from fauna of central Asia and southern Russia. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 79: 679-685 pdf

Kaya R S, Yağmur E A, Gündüz G (2026) Life in the salt edge: a new spider genus record for Türkiye, Devade Simon, 1885 (Araneae, Argyronetidae). Commagene Journal of Biology 2026(13): 1-7 pdf

Kovblyuk M M, Kastrygina Z A (2015b) Updated catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Crimea. Ukainska Entomofaunistyka 6(2): 1-81 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Nuruyeva T, Zamani A (2025) An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa 5680: 1-168 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 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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