Dictynidae  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 / Devade  Simon, 1885   3 species

Devade tenella  (Tystshenko, 1965)

Description
Male

Resembles D. indistincta, but smaller and different armature of palpal tibia and cymbium. Palp: femur with one prolateral apical spine. Prosoma length: 1.1-1.5 mm, prosoma width: 0.9-1.1 mm.

Female

Resembles D. indistincta, but smaller and differing in the shape of the fissure of the epigynal median septum. Prosoma length: 1.1-1.5 mm, prosoma width: 0.9-1.2 mm.

Additional information

Associated with damp saline bogs, running actively on the ground surface at night.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Cyprus, Ukraine to China, Iran
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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.

Armenia   (Esyunin & Marusik, 2001) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Marusik, 2001) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 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

Esyunin S L, Marusik Y M (2001) A new species of the genus Devade Simon, 1884 from Mongolia, with notes on D. tenella (Tyshchenko, 1965) (Aranei: Dictynidae). Arthropoda Selecta 9: 129-131 pdf

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

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 (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

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
15-07-2022 Distribution update Detail
15-07-2022 Distribution insert Detail
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail
18-06-2013 Image insert