Diplocephalus pavesii Pesarini, 1996
Description
Male
Prosoma shape characteristic. Palp: Paracymbium with characteristic T-shaped terminal branch. Emblus bent to the radix. Prosoma length: 0.9 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.
Body length male: 1.9 mmFemale
Sternum longer than wide. Chelicerae with 5-6 promarginal teeth, stridulatory ridges. Epigyne: with narrow, anteriorly covered by an arched transversal bulge, triangularly pointed, widened longitudinal slit, which fills the median plate. Plate bears anterior two long, drop-shaped, at the midline touching protuberances. Copulatory ducts wide, membraneous. Prosoma length: 0.8 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.
Body length female: 1.9 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Thaler 1972a)
Palpal tibia
(Pesarini 1996)
Palpal tibia
(Thaler 1972a)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Pesarini 1996)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Thaler 1972a)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Thaler 1972a)
Epigyne
(Pesarini 1996)
Epigyne
(Thaler 1972a)
Epigyne, aboral view
(Thaler 1972a)
Vulva
(Thaler 1972a)
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
Hänggi A (1993) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Kantons Tessin IV - Weitere faunistisch bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde der Tessiner Montanstufe. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 66: 303-316 
Hänggi A (1999) Nachträge zum "Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen" - 2. Neunachweise von 1993 bis 1999 Archnologische Mitteilungen 18: 17-37
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
Pesarini C (1996) Note su alcuni Erigonidae italiani, con descrizione di una nuova specie (Araneae). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 135: 413-429
Thaler K (1972a) Über einige wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen, II (Arachn., Araneae, Erigonidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 59: 29-50
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2