Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Singa  C. L. Koch, 1836   6 species

Singa neta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Description
Male

Prosoma brown, eye region black. Sternum black. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin and 1 tooth on retromargin. Legs brown, femora blackish, mainly in anterior pairs. Opisthosoma black, dorsum with white spots, getting smaller posteriorly (can be merged to a band or posterior spots sometimes absent or indistinct), venter with a white posterior spot, 2 longish lateral spots, converging posteriorly (sometimes broken).

Body length male: 2.1 mm
Female

Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 3.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Mediterranean, Iraq, Iran
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy  Removed (Pantini & Isaia, 2018) ||| Morocco   (Denis, 1956b; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| 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, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

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

Denis J (1956b) Spiders collected in French Morocco by the Durham Colleges Expedition Club. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 126: 275-281 pdf

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

Levy G (1984) The spider genera Singa and Hypsosinga (Araneae, Araneidae) in Israel. Zoologica Scripta 13: 121-133 pdf

Morano H E, Ferrández M A (1986) Especies nuevas o de interés de la familia Araneidae Latreille, 1806 (Arachnida, Araneae) de la fauna Ibérica. Miscellanea Zoologica 9: 171-178 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018). 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

Zamani A, Nadolny A A, Esyunin S L, Marusik Y M (2021) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part VIII. Zoosystematica Rossica 30: 279-297 pdf

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