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Amaurobiidae  Thorell, 1869 / Amaurobius  C. L. Koch, 1837   40 species

Amaurobius occidentalis Simon, 1893

Description
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Omitted from the Italian checklist by Pantini & Isaia (2015)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France
Phenology
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 male  female
Figures
Distribution List
France   (Bosmans, 2021) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Bacelar A (1929) Notas aracnológicas. II. Caracteres dos palpos e epiginos de algunas aranhas portuguesas. Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciencias Naturais 10: 245-262 pdf

Bosmans R (2021) Notes on Amaurobiidae (Araneae) of the Western Mediterranean region, with the description of a new species. Arachnology 18: 873-882 pdf

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

Domènech M, Bellvert A, Closa L, Maceda-Veiga A, Pons P (2021) New record of Attulus saltator for Spain, with further 16 new regional spider records for Catalonia and Galicia (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 75-81 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 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

Updates
14-10-2021 Image insert
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05-07-2021 Distribution update Detail
09-12-2015 Image insert
29-12-2014 Distribution update Detail