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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Ouedia  Bosmans & Abrous, 1992   1 species

Ouedia rufithorax (Simon, 1882)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012184

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Description

Embolus short and straight. Epigyne with two processes, reaching beyond epigastric furrow. Vulva with oval spermathecae. Prosoma red with darkened striae and spot before fovea, head region reddish brown. Sternum reddish brown with grey margin. Chelicerae brown. Legs orange-red. Opisthosoma dark grey to black

Body length male: 1.46-1.74 mm
Body length female: 1.9-1.96 mm
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Algeria, Tunisia
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Bosmans & Abrous 1992)

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male Pedipalp
(Millidge 1977)

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male Embolic division, ventral view
(Bosmans & Abrous 1992)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Bosmans & Abrous 1992)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Bosmans & Abrous 1992)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Bosmans & Abrous 1992)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans & Abrous 1992)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans & Abrous 1992)

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) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019; Barrientos & Febrer, 2017) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 pdf

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

Bosmans R, Abrous O (1992) Studies on North African Linyphiidae VI. The genera Pelecopsis Simon, Trichopterna Kulczyński and Ouedia gen. n. (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9: 65-85 pdf

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

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

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 pdf

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

Millidge A F (1977) The conformation of the male palpal organs of linyphiid spiders, and its application to the taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of the family (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 1-60 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
05-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
06-02-2019 Distribution update Detail
09-04-2013 Distribution update Detail