Habrocestum bovaei (Lucas, 1846)
Description
Male
Prosoma black, without spots or white lines on dark ground, posterior sides white and bordered by a straight line. Face red, small red spot behind third eye row. Opisthosoma with distinct design.
Female
Prosoma dark red-brown, pars cephalica more blackish. Sternum pale yellow. Opisthosoma yellow, dorsally pale brown with a semicircular, pale strip anteriorly, with two pairs of pale round spots in anterior half, two pale accents between the posterior spots followed by three small horizontal lines.
Body length female: 6 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne 2012)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2012)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Denis 1937b)
Distribution List
References
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). [N.B.: few records from this paper are not taken over and not commented] Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 
Denis J (1937b) On a collection of spiders from Algeria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 106: 1027-1060
Lecigne S (2012) Inventaire aranéologique (Arachnida, Araneae) dans la ville d’Estepona (Malaga, Espagne). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 21: 161-167
World Spider Catalog (2020) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.03.2020) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 19-07-2016 | Datasheet update | Detail |
| 24-07-2015 | Image insert | |
| 20-08-2013 | Image insert |