Segestriidae  Simon, 1893 / Segestria  Latreille, 1804   9 species

Segestria bavarica  C. L. Koch, 1843

Description
Male

Bulbus with indistinctly forked tip. Palp: the tip of the embolus is shorter than in S. senoculata, and bifurcated. Prosoma 3.5-4 mm long. Prosoma dark brown. Sternum dark brown, darker than coxa. Metatarsus I with a pair of lateral spines. Opisthosoma with grey pattern broken into single spots by bright median stripes.

Body length male: 7-8 mm
Female

Prosoma 3-5 mm long. Sternum dark brown, darker than coxa. Legs brownish, the posteriors with black annulations. Metatarsus I as in S. florentina. Opisthosoma grey brownish spotted with black, dorsally with a black pattern as in fig., ventrally with a median broad blackish band.

Body length female: 10-14 mm
Additional information

Juveniles of S. florentina look like adults of S. bavarica. In rock crevices, stone walls, pine forests, under bark, dry mixed forests, under stones, semi-dry grasslands, in houses.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Europe, Turkey, Caucasus
Phenology
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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.

Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Austria   (Thaler & Knoflach, 2002b) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Denmark   (Scharff & Gudik-Sørensen, 2006) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019; Dentici & Amata, 2018) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Luxembourg   (Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Netherlands   (van Helsdingen, 2025a) ||| North Macedonia   (Deltshev et al., 2013) ||| Poland   (Szymański et al., 2024) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Grbić & Hänggi, 2023) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) ||| Ukraine   (Fedoriak et al., 2009) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
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