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Sparassidae  Bertkau, 1872 / Heteropoda  Latreille, 1804   2 species

Heteropoda variegata (Simon, 1874)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028986

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Description
Male

Males with embolus arising in 1- to 2-o’clock-position (in left palpus in ventral view), retrotibial apophysis with 1 long dorsal extension.

Female

Females with median septum visible between lateral lobes. Copulatory ducts twisted in wide coils, extending posterior spermathecae laterally.

Additional information

In caves, cellars, under stones in the eastern Mediterranean region.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece to Israel
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Jäger unpubl.)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Jäger unpubl.)

species

male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Levy 1989)

species

male Eyes, dorsal view
(Jäger unpubl.)

species

male Chelicera, ventral view
(Jäger unpubl.)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1989)

species

female Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Levy 1989)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1989)

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female Vulva, lateral view
(Levy 1989)

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.

Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

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

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

Jäger P (unpubl.)

Levy G (1989) The family of huntsman spiders in Israel with annotations on species of the Middle East (Araneae: Sparassidae). Journal of Zoology, London 217: 127-176 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 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

Updates
11-12-2024 Distribution update Detail
26-01-2016 Image insert