Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Didectoprocnemis  Denis, 1950   1 species

Didectoprocnemis cirtensis (Simon, 1884)

Description
Male

Proosma yellowish to reddish brown, fovea and striae suffused with grey. Prosoma length: 0.66-0.80 mm, prosoma width: 0.56-0.62 mm. Legs yellowish to orange-brown. Opisthosoma grey to dark grey.

Body length male: 1.4-1.9 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 0.74-0.92 mm, prosoma width: 0.54-0.72 mm. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 1.8-2.4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, France, Greece (Crete), Romania, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
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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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Bosmans R (2007) Contribution to the knowledge of the Linyphiidae of the Maghreb. Part XII. Miscellaneous erigonine genera and additional records (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Bulletin & Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 143: 117-163 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

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

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Simon E (1926) Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 2e partie. Roret, Paris, 309-532 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 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
17-12-2013 Datasheet update Detail
17-12-2013 Image insert
15-10-2013 Distribution update Detail