Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Kochiura  Archer, 1950   1 species

Kochiura aulica (C. L. Koch, 1838)

Beschreibung
Männchen

Pedipalpus erscheint scheibenförmig. Prosoma gelblich-orange, mit schmalem, dunklem Rand und breitem, braunem Mittelstreifen. Sternum rötlich-gelb, Rand verdunkelt. Cheliceren gelblich. Beine gelblich, braun geringelt. Opisthosoma hellgelblich, mitunter auch weiß oder rötlich, mit breitem, braunem Mittelstreifen.

Körperlänge Männchen: 3.5-4.5 mm
Weibchen

Epigyne hinten von breitem Chitinwulst begrenzt. 

Körperlänge Weibchen: 3.5-4.7 mm
Zusätzliche Informationen

Auf Sträuchern in sehr warmen Gegenden, mediterrane Art, stellenweise in Mitteleuropa

Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  nicht etabliert
  kein Nachweis
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Madeira, Canary Is., Cape Verde, St. Helena, North Africa, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Jordan, Iran
Phänologie
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Weibchen mit Kokon im Juli.
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise
Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Armenia   (Zarikian, 2022b) ||| Austria   (Milasowszky & Zacherl, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Komnenov, 2010) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Majer et al., 2010) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece   (Buchholz, 2013; Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Libya   (Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka et al., 2017b) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Deltshev et al., 2003b) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (van Helsdingen, 2013; Demircan Aksan & Topçu, 2022c) ||| Ukraine   (Kovblyuk & Kastrygina, 2015b) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
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