Titanoecidae  Lehtinen, 1967 / Titanoeca  Thorell, 1870   17 species

Titanoeca flavicoma L. Koch, 1872

Description

Prosoma dark brown. Sternum dark brown. Legs dark brown. Opisthosoma blackish.

Body length female: 4.4-6.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (Corsica), Italy, Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel
Phenology
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Distribution List
Albania   (Komnenov, 2018) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova, 2019) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Greece   (Naumova, 2019; Van Keer et al., 2010) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014; Naumova, 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
References

Danışman T, Coşar İ, Erdek M (2024a) Titanoeca flavicoma L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae: Titanoecidae) in Türkiye. Serket 20: 111-115 pdf

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1995) Remarks on the Ural spider fauna, 4. New records of spider species (excluding Linyphiidae) from the Urals (Arachnida Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 4(1): 71-91 pdf

Helsdingen P J van, IJland S, Komnenov M (2018) Inventory of the spiders (Araneae) of the border region of northern Greece with Albania and FYR Macedonia. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 37: 5-23 pdf

Holm Å (1973) On the Spiders collected during the Swedish Expeditions to Novaya Zemlya and Yenisey in 1875 and 1876. Zoologica Scripta 2: 71-110 pdf

Hubert M (1966) Remarques sur quelques espèces d'araignées appartenant au genre Titanoeca Thorell 1870. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 38: 238-246 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

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Komnenov M (2018) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the floodplains of the Vjosa river, south Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 197-212 pdf

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

Lehtinen P T (1967) Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468 pdf

Naumova M (2019) Description of Titanoeca deltshevi sp. n. from Bulgaria with faunistic notes on related species in the Balkans (Araneae, Titanoecidae). Zootaxa 4688: 420-430 pdf

Van Keer J, Van Keer K, De Koninck H, Ramel G (2010) The arachnofauna (Araneae) of wetland Kerkini (Macedonia-Northern Central Greece). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 62: 141-160 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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