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Dictynidae  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 / Altella  Simon, 1885   7 species

Altella aussereri  Thaler, 1990

Description
Male

Resembles A. lucida. Tibia III ventrally with curved spine. Metatarsus I with two claw-shaped spurs. Apophysis of tibia and bulbus resembling A. lucida. Embolus narrow thong-shaped, tibial apophysis originating at half the length of bulbus and describing a 3/4 circle. Differs in posterior end of conductor. Prosoma length: 0.6 mm, prosoma width: 0.5 mm.

Body length male: 1.2-1.4 mm
Female

Resembles A. lucida. Tibia I with pair of spines medially. Epigyne: grooves indistinct, anteriorly sharply bordered, with ridge protruding over opening. Receptacula shining through, directed laterally and not medially converging as in A. lucida. Prosoma length: 0.6 mm, prosoma width: 0.5 mm.

Body length female: 1.2-1.4 mm
Additional information

in xerothermic habitats

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy, Slovakia
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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   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Slovakia   (Purgat et al., 2024) |||
References

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

Purgat P, Řezáč M, Gloríková N, Černecký J, Prince M, Gajdoš P (2024) Altella aussereri, Mimetus laevigatus, and Trichoncyboides simoni (Araneae: Dictynidae, Mimetidae, Linyphiidae), three species of spiders new for Slovakia. Check List 20: 761-770 pdf

Thaler K, Noflatscher M-T (1990) Neue und bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Südtirol (Arachnida: Aranei). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 69: 169-190 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

Updates
22-06-2024 Image insert
22-06-2024 Distribution insert Detail
20-03-2024 Image insert
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail