Male palp appears disc-shaped. Prosoma yellowish-orange, with slender dark margin and broad brown median stripe. Sternum reddish yellow, margin darkened. Chelicerae yellowish. Legs yellowish, annulated with brown. Opisthosoma light yellowish, sometimes also white or reddish, with broad brown median stripe.
Body length male: 3.5-4.5 mmEpigyne with broad chitinous bulge posteriorly.
Body length female: 3.5-4.7 mmOn bushes in very warm regions, Mediterranean species, in some places in Central Europe
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"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.
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