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Anapidae  Simon, 1895 / Zangherella  Caporiacco, 1949   3 species

Zangherella relicta  (Kratochvíl, 1935)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009179

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Description
Male

Characters as in female, but opisthosoma with a dorsal and a ventral scutum.

Body length male: 1.2 mm
Female

Very similar to Z. apuliae. Prosoma reddish brown. Eyes: PME less than one diameter apart, and 2 diameters from PLE, lateral eyes contiguous. Clypeus as high as the length of chelicerae. Tarsus I with 4 short strong prolateral spines. Opisthosoma whitish, without scutum.

Body length female: 1.4 mm
Additional information

In caves. Strongly modified anapid orb web, similar to Comaroma simoni.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Montenegro, Bulgaria
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)

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male Leg I, prolateral view
(Wunderlich 1980d)

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female Epigyne
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)

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female Epigyne
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)

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.

Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Montenegro   (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1974; Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| Serbia   (no references) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1974) The cave spider fauna of Montenegro (Araneae). Glasnik Republickog Zavoda za Zastitu Prirode i Prirodnjackog Muzeja Titogradu 6: 9-33 pdf

Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M, Stoev P (2011a) A survey of spiders (Araneae) inhabiting the euedaphic soil stratum and the superficial underground compartment in Bulgaria. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 40: 33-46 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

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 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 (1980d) Über europäische Symphytognathidae (Arach.: Araneae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 23: 259-273 pdf

Updates
03-05-2024 Distribution update Detail
18-12-2014 Image insert