Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Pelecopsis  Simon, 1864   40 species

Pelecopsis inedita  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875)

Description

Tibial apophysis long, straight, pointed. Embolus semi-circular. Epigyne without distinct structures. Spermathecae visible through integument. Prosoma dark brown, punctured; Striae, fovea and margin black. Sternum dark brown. Legs yellowish orange. Opisthosoma grey, with scutum covering 3/5 of opisthosoma

Body length male: 1.48-2 mm
Body length female: 1.46-2.5 mm
Additional information

Mainly in open habitats.

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2023): Canary Is., Mediterranean
Phenology
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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   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Egypt   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Dentici et al., 2022) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| 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

Bellvert A (2018) First records of some spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from La Palma (Spain: Canary Islands). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 33: 101-105 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

Buchholz S (2013) Spider records from East Macedonia and Thrace (NE Greece). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 45: 45-53 pdf

Dentici A, Barbera A, Ditta A, Surdo S (2022) On some new reports on the spider fauna of Italy and Sicily (Arachnida Araneae). Biodiversity Journal 13: 399-408 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110 pdf

WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (14.02.2023) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
01-07-2022 Distribution insert Detail
09-01-2019 Image insert
30-12-2017 Distribution update Detail
12-07-2013 Distribution update Detail
15-04-2013 Distribution update Detail