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Liocranidae  Simon, 1897 / Liocranum  L. Koch, 1866   8 species

Liocranum majus Simon, 1878

Description
Female

Prosoma without marginal line. Resembles Sagana rutilans, but with three spines on metatarsi and different design on opisthosoma with 6-7 blackish accents in posterior half. Prosoma length: 3.1 mm, prosoma width: 2.4 mm.

Body length female: 9.2 mm mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France, Italy
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Distribution List
France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Barrientos J A, García-López V, Soria F-J (2019d) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) del complejo Hundidero-Gato (Málaga, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 35: 3-8 pdf

Bosselaers J (2024) Studies in Liocranidae IV: Scotina occulta, Liocranum concolor and a key to the Euro-Mediterranean genera (Araneae, Liocranidae). Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 39: 6-20 pdf

Bosselaers J (unpubl.)

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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Simon E (1878) Les arachnides de France 4. Paris (Roret): 1-334 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

Updates
15-09-2024 Image insert
09-08-2021 Distribution insert Detail
31-12-2019 Image insert
16-01-2018 Image insert
11-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail