Entelecara aestiva Simon, 1918
Description
Male
Metatarsus IV with trichobothrium. Bristle on tibia IV quite long, 1.75 times the tibial diameter in contrast to related species (1.4 times). Lobe of prosoma very high, wider than in the related E. turbinata. Palpal tibial apophysis characteristic.
Female
Metatarsus IV with trichobothrium. Bristle on tibia IV quite long, 1.75 times the tibial diameter in contrast to related species (1.4 times). Epigyne: with very wide median plate.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Pesarini 1996)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Barrientos & Sánchez-Corral 2020)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Barrientos & Sánchez-Corral 2020)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Barrientos & Sánchez-Corral 2020)
Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Domènech et al. 2023)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Pesarini 1996)
Prosoma, aberrant form, lateral view
(Denis 1945c)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Barrientos & Sánchez-Corral 2020)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Denis 1945c)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Denis 1945c)
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(Barrientos & Sánchez-Corral 2020)
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
Barrientos J A, Sánchez-Corral D (2020) Linyphiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) de la Sierra de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas (Jaén, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 25-34 
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Denis J (1945c) Notes sur les érigonides. X. Remarques sur le genre Entelecara E. Simon avec la description de formes nouvelles du genre Plaesiocraerus E. Simon. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 80: 203-215
Domènech M, Méndez Ó, Espigulé-Pons J, Carbonell R, Pinilla-Rosa M (2023) Nuevas citas aracnológicas (Araneae) en Cataluña (NE de la Península Ibérica). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 42: 159-166
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
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
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
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2