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Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Dysdera  Latreille, 1804   220 species

Dysdera ligustica Gasparo, 1997

Description
Male

Prosoma 2.9 mm long.

Body length male: 6.9 mm
Female

Prosoma brownish, 2.9 mm long. Chelicerae with 3 teeth. Legs yellowish-brown, all segments spineless, except posterior tibia with 5 or 6 spines and posterior metatarsus with more than 8 spines.

Body length female: 8.6 mm
Additional information

Altitude up to 1500 m.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Phenology
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"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.

Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Gasparo F (1997b) Due nuove specie del genere Dysdera dell'Appennino centro-settentrionale (Araneae, Dysderidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 29: 239-251 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 (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522 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

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