Sparassidae  Bertkau, 1872 / Eusparassus  Simon, 1903   10 species

Eusparassus dufouri Simon, 1932

Description

Colouration olive-brown. Legs clearly banded. Ventral opisthosoma with a V-shaped dark marking.

Body length male: 9.9-13.8 mm
Body length female: 16.2-17.5 mm
Additional information

Mostly under stones, under old tree bark (south-east of Portugal) and in Eucalyptus trees

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Distribution comment: Western Iberia. Records from from Greece and Turkey probably belong to E. walckenaeri and citations from North Africa concern other species (compare Moradmand & Jäger 2012, Moradmand 2013)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain. Introduced to the Netherlands
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Algeria  Removed (Moradmand, 2013) ||| Greece   (Brullé, 1832) ||| Libya  Removed (Moradmand, 2013) ||| Morocco  Removed (Moradmand, 2013) ||| Netherlands   (Noordijk & de Winkel, 2017) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia  Removed (Moradmand, 2013) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Urones M C (1985) La colección de araneidos del Departamento de Zoología de la Universidad de Salamanca, V: arañas clubionoideas y tomisoideas. Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología 9: 349-366 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Brullé A (1832) Expédition scientifique de Morée. Section des Sciences Physiques. Tome III. 1re Partie – Zoologie. Deuxième Section – Des animaux articulé. F.-G. Levrault, Paris, Arachnides: pp. 51-61, pl. 28, Errata. 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

Moradmand M (2013) The stone huntsman spider genus Eusparassus (Araneae: Sparassidae): systematics and zoogeography with revision of the African and Arabian species. Zootaxa 3675: 1-108 pdf

Moradmand M, Jäger P (2012) Taxonomic revision of the huntsman spider genus Eusparassus Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Sparassidae) in Eurasia. Journal of Natural History 46: 2439-2496 pdf

Noordijk J, Winkel M de (2017) Eusparassus dufouri en andere jachtkrabspinnen (Araneae: Sparassidae) getransporteerd naar Nederland [Eusparassus dufouri and other huntsman spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae) transported tothe Netherlands]. Entomologische Berichten 77: 58-61 pdf

Urones C (2006) El género Eusparassus Simon, 1903 (Araneae, Sparassidae) en la Península Ibérica, con la descripción de una especie nueva. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 12: 99-115 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
01-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
25-02-2022 Distribution update Detail
25-02-2022 Datasheet update Detail
05-02-2019 Datasheet update Detail
08-06-2017 Distribution update Detail
09-10-2015 Distribution update Detail