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

Amaurobius pavesii Pesarini, 1991

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022631

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Description

Males very similar to P. scopolii. But indentations of the "apophyse supère" (Simon, 1914) less deep than in P. scopolii.

Body length female: 10.8 mm
Additional information

After Isaia & Pantini (pers. comm.) fig. 14a and 14b in Pesarini (1991) refer to A. pavesii instead of A. scopolii. Not yet considered in the World Spider Catalog 11.5 (Plantick 2011)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini 1991)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Pesarini 1991)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini 1991)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Pesarini 1991)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ballarin & Pantini 2017)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ballarin & Pantini 2017)

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male Bulbus, ventro-prolateral view
(Ballarin & Pantini 2017)

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male Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Ballarin & Pantini 2017)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Pesarini 1991)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Ballarin & Pantini 2017)

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female Epigyne
(Ballarin & Pantini 2017)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Ballarin & Pantini 2017)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Pesarini 1991)

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female Vulva
(Ballarin & Pantini 2017)

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female Vulva
(Ballarin & Pantini 2017)

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.

Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Ballarin F, Pantini P (2017) A new species of Amaurobius C.L. Koch, 1837 (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from Apennine Mountains (Italy) with the description of the male of A. pavesii Pesarini, 1991. Zootaxa 4276: 479-502 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

Pesarini C (1991) The Amaurobiidae of Northern Italy (Araneae). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 131: 261-276 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
16-06-2017 Image insert