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Miturgidae  Simon, 1886 / Prochora  Simon, 1886   1 species

Prochora lycosiformis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023560

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Description

Body and legs medium brown, prosoma cuticula finely furrowed, eye field narrow, posterior median eye lenses circular, clypeus short, labium free, about as long as wide, gnathocoxal depression absent, fangs long, basal cheliceral articles large, anterior cheliceral margin with 3 teeth, posterior margin with 2 teeth, leg bristles numerous but absent on patellae, tibia I-II with 2 ventral pairs (thin in females) and short apical bristles, tarsal and metatarsal scopulae dense and undivided, dense claw tufts with thin hairs, tarsal trichobothria in 2 irregular rows, apical article  of posterior spinnerets about as long as the basal article, colulus strongly reduced or even absent, replaced by several long hairs, retrolateral tibial apophysis of the male palp bifurcate, bulbus with complex structures, the embolus describes a wide loop in a counterclockwise position of the right pedipalpus and reaches the tibia, epigyne as figure

Body length male: 7.9 mm
Body length female: 9.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Algeria, Italy (incl. Sicily), Israel, Iraq, Iran
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 2011b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 2011b)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Boucherit et al. 2020)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Boucherit et al. 2020)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Boucherit et al. 2020)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Boucherit et al. 2020)

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male Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Boucherit et al. 2020)

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male Habitus, dorsal view
(Boucherit et al. 2020)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Wunderlich 2011b)

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female Epigyne
(Boucherit et al. 2020)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Boucherit et al. 2020)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Boucherit et al. 2020)

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.

Algeria   (Boucherit et al., 2020; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Boucherit S, Bouragba N, Douaoui A, Bosmans R (2020) Araignées de la plaine alluviale du Haut-Chéliff (Algérie), avec la citation de quelques espèces nouvelles ou rares pour l’Algérie (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Miturgidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 35: 60-70 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

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

Wunderlich J (2011b) On European spiders of the nominal families Liocranidae, Miturgidae and Zoridae (Araneae), with descriptions of new taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 108-120 pdf

Updates
19-01-2021 Image insert
19-01-2021 Distribution insert Detail
15-04-2014 Image insert