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Cheiracanthiidae  Wagner, 1887 / Cheiracanthium  C. L. Koch, 1839   33 species

Cheiracanthium occidentale  L. Koch, 1882

Description
Male

Male unknown.

Female

Epigyne: median depression with an interior margin and is wider than long. Spermathecae relatively small, only 1/3 of the width of the depression. Copulatory openings situated antero-laterally of the depression, sperm ducts make three coils to the elongated spermathecae.

Body length female: 6.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Spain (Minorca), Italy
Phenology
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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.

Italy   (IJland & van Helsdingen, 2016; Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J (2012a) On the spider species described by L. Koch in 1882 from the Balearic Islands (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 43: 5-16 pdf

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

IJland S, Helsdingen P J van (2016) On some spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Basilicata and Calabria, Italy. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 36: 25-44 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
16-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
10-01-2017 Distribution update Detail
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail