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Gnaphosidae  Pocock, 1898 / Prodidomus  Hentz, 1847   7 species

Prodidomus amaranthinus  (Lucas, 1846)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026472

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Description

Pro- and opisthosoma velvet grey to brown, legs yellow-orange to red-brown, cheliceral teeth long, with dark colour, prosoma with distinct fovea.

Body length male: 6-7 mm
Body length female: 7-10 mm
Additional information

Under stones

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2021): Mediterranean
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Pérez & Blasco 1986)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Topçu & Türkeş 2010)

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male Spinnerets
(Pérez & Blasco 1986)

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male Habitus
(Pérez & Blasco 1986)

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female Epigyne
(Pérez & Blasco 1986)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Topçu & Türkeş 2010)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Pérez & Blasco 1986)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Topçu & Türkeş 2010)

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Sternum
(Pérez & Blasco 1986)

Distribution List
Algeria   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Libya   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2019) |||
References

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

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

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 pdf

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 pdf

Pérez J A, Blasco A (1986) Nota sobre los Prodidominae (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) de la Peninsula Iberica. Mémoires de la Société Royal Belge d'Entomologie 33: 155-164 pdf

Topçu A, Türkeş T (2010) The first record of the family Prodidomidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in Turkey. Turkish Journal of Zoology 34: 425-427 pdf

WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (03.01.2021) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
15-10-2013 Distribution update Detail