Diaea livens Simon, 1876
Description
Tibial apophysis with V-shaped groove between the 2 processes. Embolus with angular tip. Epigyne with tongue-like protruding part. Prosoma eye region white, female: reddish (yellow-brown in alcohol), male: with 2 dark longitudinal stripes. Legs with dark annulations. Opisthosoma cream-yellow, laterally and posteriorly with red-brown pattern (vanishes in alcohol), pattern stronger pronounced in males.
Body length male: 4.2 mmBody length female: 5.8 mm
Additional information
Almost exclusively on oaks.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Buchar & Thaler 1984)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Buchar & Thaler 1984)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Urones 2000)
Pedipalp
(Urones 2000)
Habitus
(Urones 2000)
Epigyne
(Buchar & Thaler 1984)
Epigyne
(Buchar & Thaler 1984)
Epigyne
(Urones 2000)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Buchar & Thaler 1984)
Vulva
(Urones 2000)
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
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Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Buchar J, Thaler K (1984) Eine zweite Diaea-Art in Mitteleuropa: Diaea pictilis (Araneida, Thomisidae). Věstník Československé Zoologické Společnosti v Praze 48: 1-8
Buchholz S (2013) Spider records from East Macedonia and Thrace (NE Greece). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 45: 45-53
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2023b) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2023 [last updated 17 July 2023], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144
Geci D, Naumova M (2021b) A preliminary checklist of the spiders of Kosovo (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologia Balkanica, Special Edition 4: 11-28
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Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
Tomić V, Grbić G (2008) Preliminary notes on spider fauna of Mt. Fruska Gora. In: Ćurĉić S, Šimić S (eds.) Invertebrates (Invertebrata) of the Fruska Gora Mountain I. Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, pp. 57-62
Urones C (2000) El género Diaea Thorell, 1869 (Araneae, Thomisidae) en la Península Ibérica. Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología 24: 85-96
WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (14.02.2023) doi: 10.24436/2