Trachelidae  Simon, 1897 / Trachelas  L. Koch, 1872   5 species

Trachelas minor O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

Beschreibung
Männchen

Prosoma gelblich bis bis rötlich-braun, dicht granuliert. Prosomalänge: 1.00 mm. Cheliceren rötlich-braun, vorderer und hinterer Klauenfurchenrand je mit 2 kleinen Zähnen. Sternum etwas granuliert, hell gelbbraun, Rand dunkler. Beine hell gelblich-braun, distale Segmente etwas dunkler als Femora. Opisthosoma blass gelblich-grau, hinteres Viertel schokoladenbraun mit dünnen, weißen Winkelflecken, dorsales Scutum schmal, orangegelb und etwas glänzend.

Körperlänge Männchen: 1.8-2.1 mm
Weibchen

Prosoma, Cheliceren, Sternum und Beine wie Männchen. Prosomalänge: 1.09 mm. Opisthosoma blass gelblich-grau mit schkoladenbraunem, lanzettförmigen Mittelband, hinteres Viertel dunkel mit weißen Winkelflecken, dorsales Scutum fehlt.

Körperlänge Weibchen: 1.8-3.5 mm
Zusätzliche Informationen

In Wiesen und an Bäumen (Spanien: Citrus).

Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  kein Nachweis
Verbreitung Kommentar: Nachweise aus Westafrika gehören wahrscheinlich zu T. falsus (Haddad & Lyle, 2025)
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Mediterranean, Switzerland, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Sierra Leone?, Liberia?
Phänologie
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Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise

"No reference" bedeutet nicht, dass die Art in diesem Land nicht vorkommt, sondern dass wir die Referenz hierfür noch nicht eingefügt haben. Wir arbeiten daran.

Albania   (Kůrka et al., 2020) ||| Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi et al., 2014) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Ukraine   (Kovblyuk & Kastrygina, 2015b) |||
Literatur

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

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 pdf

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

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Haddad, C. R. & Lyle, R (2025) A revision of the genus Trachelas L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae: Trachelidae) in the continental Afrotropical Region. Zootaxa 5673: 451-493 pdf

Hänggi A, Stäubli A, Heer X, Trivellone V, Pollini Paltrinieri L, Moretti M (2014) Eleven new spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) for Switzerland discovered in vineyards in Ticino - What are possible reasons? Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 87: 215-228 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

Jin C, Yin X C, Zhang F (2017b) Four new species of the genus Trachelas L. Koch, 1872 and the first record of T. vulcani Simon, 1896 from south-west China (Araneae: Trachelidae). Zootaxa 4324: 23-49 pdf

Kovblyuk M M, Kastrygina Z A (2015b) Updated catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Crimea. Ukainska Entomofaunistyka 6(2): 1-81 pdf

Kůrka A, Naumova M, Indzhov S, Deltshev C (2020) New faunistic and taxonomic data on the spider fauna of Albania (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 8-21 pdf

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

Marusik Y M, Kovblyuk M M (2010) The spider genus Trachelas L. Koch, 1872 (Aranei: Corinnidae) in Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 19: 21-27 pdf

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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. pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 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

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