Mesiotelus mauritanicus Simon, 1909
Description
Female
Prosoma orange-yellow when preserved in alcohol, lighter in cephalic region, smooth and shiny. Darker striae radiating from a conspicuous, brown fovea. Opisthosoma greyish yellow with darker, dagger shaped median mark in anterior third. Legs brownish yellow, tibiae and metatarsi I and II with two parallel ventral rows of erectile bristles.
Prosoma length 2.10 mm, prosoma width 1.70 mm.
Body length female: 5.0 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Simon 1932)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2017)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne 2017)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 2023)
Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, prolateral view
(Wunderlich 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 2023)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Tibial apophysis, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 2023)
Leg I, prolateral view
(Wunderlich 2023)
Tibia IV, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 2023)
Epigyne
(Simon 1932)
Epigyne
(Bosselaers unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Lecigne 2017)
Epigyne
(Lecigne et al. 2023)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Lecigne 2017)
Vulva, ventral view
(Lecigne 2017)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Bosselaers unpubl.)
Leg I, frontal view
(Bosselaers unpubl.)
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.
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 
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535
Bosselaers J (unpubl.)
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
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
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Lecigne S (2017) Contribution a la connaissance de l’araneofaune (Araneae) de l’Algarve (Portugal). Description de Theridion bernardi n.sp. (Araneae: Theridiidae) et redécouverte d’Ozyptila perplexa Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 25-48
Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2023) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – first note – on new records of cave spiders. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 66: 44-71
Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184
Simon E (1909) Etude sur les arachnides recueillis au Maroc par M. Martinez de la Escalera en 1907. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (6) 1: 5-43
Simon E (1932) Les arachnides de France 6 (4). Paris (Roret): 773-978
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Wunderlich J (2023) Contribution to the spider (Araneida) fauna of the Algarve, Portugal, with notes on the phylogeny of the superfamily Araneoidea and the description of the new araneoid family Fonteferridae. Beiträge zur Araneologie 16: 4-112