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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Gonatium  Menge, 1868   13 species

Gonatium occidentale Simon, 1918

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010666

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Description
Male

Prosoma orange-brown, with darker markings and margins. Raised anteriorly, with short sulci behind the lateral eyes. Opisthosoma black. Sternum orange-brown. Legs orange-brown, with tarsi rather paler. Palp: tibial apophyses and the lateral apophyses crossing each other, while the basal, wart-bearing apophysis is not rounded.

Prosoma length: 1.2 mm.

Body length male: 2.2 mm
Female

Colouration as in male. Epigyne: genital openings wide and
approximately circular in shape.

Prosoma length: 1.0 mm.

Body length female: 2.35 mm
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France, Morocco, Algeria, Israel
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Millidge 1981b)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 2007)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Morano et al. 2021)

species

male Embolic division, mesal view
(Bosmans 2007)

species

male Cymbium
(Millidge 1981b)

species

male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Bosmans 2007)

species

female Epigyne
(Millidge 1981b)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosmans 2007)

species

female Epigyne
(Morano et al. 2021)

species

female Vulva
(Millidge 1981b)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Bosmans 2007)

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) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
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

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

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

Millidge A F (1981b) A revision of the genus Gonatium (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5: 253-277 pdf

Morano E, Canelo T, Gaytán Á, Pérez-Izquierdo C, Bonal R (2021) Arañas (Arachnida: Araneae) en encinares centro-occidentales de la Península Ibérica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 39: 81-103 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
11-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
11-01-2022 Image insert
11-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail
17-12-2013 Image insert