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Trachelidae  Simon, 1897 / Paratrachelas  Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2009   4 species

Paratrachelas validus  (Simon, 1884)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025566

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Description
Male

Prosoma reddish brown to chestnut brown, with small pits. Prosoma length: 2.50 mm. Chelicerae chestnut brown, rugose, pro- and retromargin with 3 teeth. Sternum orange-brown, with small pits. Legs I-II orange-brown, legs III-IV orange-yellow. Opisthosoma grey, dorsum with brown scutum, covering almost the entire opisthosoma, with 4 pale spots in anterior part and some pale chevrons in posterior part.

Body length male: 2.79-4.68 mm
Female

Prosoma reddish brown, with small pits. Prosoma length: 1.97 mm. Chelicerae brown, rugose, toothed as in males. Sternum yellow-brown with small pits. Leg I-II orange-brown, leg III-IV orange. Opisthosoma grey, dorsum with a darker, dagger-shaped longitudinal mark and 4 lighter spots around sigilla in anterior half, as well as some lighter chevrons in posterior half, dorsal scutum absent.

Body length female: 4.52-4.89 mm
Additional information

In humus, litter layer, moss, on shrubs, under stones, from 10 m up to 1500 m a.s.l.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Portugal, Spain, Italy
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Pantini & Mazzoleni 2018)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pantini & Mazzoleni 2018)

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male Habitus
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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female Habitus
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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Chelicerae
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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.

Italy   (no references) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

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

Pantini P, Mazzoleni F (2018) I ragni de Calabria (Arachnida Araneae). Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "E. Caffi", Bergamo 31: 11-69 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
20-04-2018 Image insert
20-04-2018 Distribution update Detail