Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Pulchellodromus  Wunderlich, 2012   11 species

Pulchellodromus bistigma  (Simon, 1870)

Description
Male

Tibia I with three pairs of ventral spines. Palp: cymbium with prolateral-basal bulge, position of bulbus oblique, tip of ventral tibial apophysis strongly hooked. Sperm duct loop asymmetric, with descending part. Embolus hidden in ventral view, its very tip sometimes visible.

Prosoma length: 1.3-1.7 mm.

Female

Tibia I with three pairs of ventral spines. Epigyne with lateral grooves, median septum elevated. Median septum without keel, glandular heads indistinct.

Prosoma length: 1.3-1.9 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Mediterranean
Phenology
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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.

Albania   (Vrenozi & Jäger, 2012) ||| Algeria   (Muster et al., 2007; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Croatia   (Muster et al., 2007) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Febrer J B (2018) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). 2: “adenda et corrigenda”. Descripción de tres especies nuevas. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 33: 39-51 pdf

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

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). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Crespo L (2008) Contribution to the knowledge of the Portuguese spider (Arachnida: Araneae) fauna: seven new additions to the Portuguese checklist. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 43: 403-407 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Muster C, Bosmans R, Thaler K (2007) The Philodromus pulchellus-group in the Mediterranean: taxonomic revision, phylogenetic analysis and biogeography (Araneae: Philodromidae). Invertebrate Systematics 21: 39-72 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2012) A faunistic study on ground-dwelling spiders (Araneae) in the Tirana district, Albania. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 81-87 pdf

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 pdf

Updates
25-02-2022 Distribution insert Detail
16-07-2020 Distribution insert Detail
09-01-2019 Distribution update Detail
11-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail