Segestria florentina (Rossi, 1790)
Description
Male
Palp : the embolus is shorter than in S. senoculata, and not bifurcal. Palp with blunt tip of bulbus. Prosoma black. Sternum red-brown to dark brown-black. Metatarsus I laterally with one pair of spines. Opisthosoma black, sometimes appearing grey due to bright hairs.
Body length male: 10-15 mmFemale
Sternum reddish-brown to dark brown, as coxa. Clypeus as wide as or wider than diameter of anterior lateral eyes. Chelicerae with a metallic green sheen. Leg I black, legs II, III and IV reddish-brown, without annulations in adults, metatarsus I with one short median ventral spine at apex, one pair of ventrolateral spines, and close to the pair a single median spine. Opisthosoma: in adults, uniform blackish-brown with a purplish sheen, dorsally a lobed band scarcely distinct, in juveniles the opisthosoma is lighter and the dorsal band much more distinct.
Body length female: 14-22 mmAdditional information
Juveniles of S. florentina look like adults of S. bavarica. In forests, under barks and stones, rock crevices, stone walls, semi-dry grasslands, littoral, under shingle, in houses.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1976c)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1995)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(El-Hennawy 2020)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(El-Hennawy 2020)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(El-Hennawy 2020)
Vulva
(Brignoli 1976c)
Spermatheca
(Brignoli 1976c)
Metatarsus
(Roberts 1995)
Metatarsus I
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Distribution List
"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.
References
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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
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Brignoli P M (1976c) Ragni d'Italia XXIV. Note sulla morfologia dei genitali interni dei Segestriidae e cenni sulle specie italiane (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 12: 19-62
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
El-Hennawy H K (2020) Notes on Segestria florentina (Rossi, 1790) and family Segestriidae in Egypt (Araneae: Segestriidae). Serket 17: 158-167
Etriieki A M O, Elmareme H M A, Alfiteesi F A M (2024) The first record of the spider Segestria florentina (Rossi, 1790) (Araneae: Segestriidae) in Libya. Serket 20: 131-135
Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin
Komnenov M, Pavićević D (2008) First record of the spider Segestria florentina (Rossi, 1790) (Araneae, Segestriidae) in Serbia. Protection of Nature 58: 169-173
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
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Locket G H, Millidge A F (1951) British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp.
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Nolan M (2008) First records of three spider species in Ireland (Araneae): Glyphesis cottonae (La Touche), Mioxena blanda (Simon) (Linyphiidae) and Segestria florentina (Rossi) (Segestriidae). Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 32: 132-141
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Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.
WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
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