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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Pelecopsis  Simon, 1864   41 species

Pelecopsis coccinea (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875)

Description

Tibial apophysis with denticulate lateral margin. Embolus circular. Epigynal ventral plate longer than wide, with transverse groove before epigastric furrow. Prosoma strongly punctured. Sternum brown-black, strongly punctured. Opisthosoma glossy black, with scutum

Body length male: 1.92-2.22 mm
Body length female: 2.14-2.3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, Morocco
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Distribution List
Morocco   (Bosmans & Abrous, 1992; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019; Bosmans & Jocqué, 1993) |||
References

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 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, Jocqué R (1993) Five Linyphiidae new to Europe, with description of Pelecopsis pooti sp. n. (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Belgian Journal of Zoology 123: 129-134 pdf

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

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
05-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
22-01-2024 Distribution update Detail