Male palp with conically inflated bulbus. Epigyne longer than wide. Prosoma with dense white hairs and black bristles. Legs with darker distal segments. Opisthosoma light to yellow-brown, with dense white hairs and black bristles.
Body length male: 6.7-8.6 mmIn dry meadows, active during the day, specialized to capture ants that are paralyzed by a bite in the antenna, threads are attached to the prey with the long and movable spinnerets at the same time
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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.
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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
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Sánchez I, Pérez A, Amarillo J M, Pedreño M (2019) Ampliación del catálogo de arañas de la provincia de Cádiz, con una nueva especie para la Península Ibérica (España). Revista de la Sociedad Gaditana de Historia Natural 13: 33-42
WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (25.10.2023) doi: 10.24436/2
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