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Cybaeidae  Banks, 1892 / Mastigusa  Menge, 1854   4 species

Mastigusa lucifuga  (Simon, 1898)

Description
Male

Male unknown.

Female

Epigyne large, reddish, flat and haired. Prosoma, chelicerae and sternum reddish brown, anterior eyes surrounded with black. Opisthosoma pale reddish brown. Spinnerets brown.

Body length female: 2.5 mm
Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): France (Pyrenees)
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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.

France   (no references) |||
References

Castellucci F, Luchetti A, Scharff N (2024) Enigmatic and extravagant genitalia in the spider genus Mastigusa (Araneae, Cybaeidae) – a taxonomical revision. Invertebrate Systematics 38(IS23047): 1-27 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 pdf

Simon E (1898a) Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 2: 193-380 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

Wunderlich J (1986) Spinnenfauna gestern und heute: Fossile Spinnen in Bernstein und ihre heute lebenden Verwandten. Quelle & Meyer, Wiesbaden. 283 pp. pdf

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