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
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Muster et al. 2007)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Crespo 2008)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Tibial apophysis, retrolateral view
(Muster et al. 2007)
Tibial apophysis, ventral view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Muster et al. 2007)
Epigyne
(Crespo 2008)
Vulva
(Crespo 2008)
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
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 
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535
Bosmans R, Baert L, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H, Maelfait J-P, Van Keer J (2009) Spiders of Lesbos (Greece). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 24(suppl.): 1-70
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
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
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
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
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
Rehfeldt S, Cassar T (2024) A contribution to the arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) of the Maltese Islands, with two new records for Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 67: 18-47
Simon E (1875) Les arachnides de France. 2. Paris (Roret): 1-350
Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2012) A faunistic study on ground-dwelling spiders (Araneae) in the Tirana district, Albania. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 81-87
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 17-07-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 21-06-2024 | Image insert | |
| 17-06-2024 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 17-06-2024 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 08-05-2024 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 25-02-2022 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 16-07-2020 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 09-01-2019 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 11-07-2016 | Datasheet update | Detail |