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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Poecilochroa  Westring, 1874   4 species

Poecilochroa albomaculata (Lucas, 1846)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027724

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Description
Body length female: 7-8.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Di Franco 1987)

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male Pedipalp
(Di Franco 1987)

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female Epigyne
(Grimm 1985)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Grimm 1985)

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female Prosoma, dorsal view
(Grimm 1985)

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female Sternum
(Grimm 1985)

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female Gnathocoxae and labium
(Grimm 1985)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Grimm 1985)

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female Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Grimm 1985)

Distribution List
Algeria   (Alioua & Bosmans, 2020; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Morocco   (Alioua & Bosmans, 2020; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Alioua & Bosmans, 2020; Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Alioua A, Bosmans R (2020) Poecilochroa senilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) recorded for the first time in Algeria and Morocco, with the proposition of a new synonym. Serket 17: 121-126 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

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

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

Di Franco F (1987) Gnaphosidae (Arachnida, Araneae) dell'Isola di Salina (Isole Eolie). Animalia 13: 137-157 pdf

Grimm U (1985) Die Gnaphosidae Mitteleuropas (Arachnida, Araneae). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 1-318 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

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 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
10-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
23-03-2024 Image insert
17-04-2020 Distribution update Detail