Paratrachelas maculatus (Thorell, 1875)
Description
Male
Prosoma light chestnut brown, with small pits. Prosoma length: 1.4-2.1 mm, prosoma width: 1.2-1.8 mm. Chelicerae chestnut brown, promargin with 3 teeth, retromargin with 2 teeth. Sternum light chestnut brown, slightly pitted. Legs orange-brown, femora of anterior legs darker. Opisthosoma grey, with 2 large, irregular light spots anteriorly and 2 transversal median light patches, dorsal scutum absent.
Body length male: 3.0-4.0 mmFemale
Prosoma as in males. Prosoma length: 1.7-2.2 mm, prosoma width 1.5-1.9 mm. Chelicerae brown, toothed as in males. Sternum orange-brown, margin darker, with some small pits. Legs orange-brown. Opisthosoma as in males, but with additional pale chevrons in posterior part and the white patches with a pattern of small grey spots.
Body length female: 3.4-5.2 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2009)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2009)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2009)
Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2009)
Epigyne
(Bauer & Grabolle 2012)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2009)
Vulva
(Bauer & Grabolle 2012)
Habitus
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Bauer & Grabolle 2012)
Distribution List
References
Bauer T, Grabolle A (2012) Erstnachweise von Paratrachelas maculatus in Österreich und Deutschland (Araneae, Corinnidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 77-80 
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)
Bosselaers J, Urones C, Barrientos J A, Alberdi J M (2009) On the Mediterranean species of Trachelinae (Araneae, Corinnidae) with a revision of Trachelas L. Koch 1872 on the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Arachnology 37: 15-38
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). [N.B.: few records from this paper are not taken over and not commented] Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2019) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2019 [last updated 1 June 2019], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Kovblyuk M M, Nadolny A A (2009) The spider genus Trachelas L. Koch, 1872 in Crimea and Caucasus with the description of Paratrachelas gen.n. (Aranei: Corinnidae). Arthropoda Selecta 18: 35-46
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). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
World Spider Catalog (2020) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.03.2020) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 08-11-2018 | Image insert | |
| 11-02-2015 | Distribution update | Detail |