Harpactea babori (Nosek, 1905)
Description
Male
Prosoma reddish brown, 2.7 mm long. Legs: femur I with 2 spines, femur II with 2 or 3 spines, femur III and IV with 5 spines, patella III with one spine.
Body length male: 4.9 mmFemale
Prosoma and chelicerae red-brown. Prosoma length: 2.80 mm. Sternum red-orange. Legs red-orange. Opisthosoma whitish.
Body length female: 7.70 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Brignoli 1978a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lazarov 2010b)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Lazarov 2010b)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Brignoli 1978a)
Part of bulbus
(Brignoli 1978a)
Vulva, ventral view
(Lazarov 2010b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Lazarov 2010b)
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
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) 
Brignoli P M (1978a) Ragni di Turchia V. Specie nuove o interesanti, cavernicole ed epigee, di varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 85: 461-541
Buchholz S (2013) Spider records from East Macedonia and Thrace (NE Greece). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 45: 45-53
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 21 February 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Demircan Aksan N, Topçu A (2022c) A preliminary checklist of the spider fauna of European Türkiye. Serket 19: 39-56
Lazarov S (2010b) New faunistic data for Harpactea babori Nosek, 1905) and description of the unknown female (Araneae, Dysderidae). Turkish Journal of Arachnology 3(1): 9-12
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
Schröder M, Chatzaki M, Buchholz S (2011) The spider fauna of the Aladjagiola wetland complex (Nestos Delta, north-east Greece): a reflection of a unique zoogeographical transition zone in Europe. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 102: 217-233
WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2