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Halonoproctidae  Pocock, 1901 / Ummidia  Thorell, 1875   4 species

Ummidia aedificatoria (Westwood, 1840)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000605

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Description
Male

Male unknown

Female

Spermathecae with short bent central section. Prosoma dark brown, shiny. Prosoma length: 11-12 mm. Ocular rectangle: length/width ratio low. Rastellar process reduced. Opisthosoma black, dull, covered with hairs.

Body length female: 18.1-25 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records from Portugal, Spain and Algeria are misidentifications (Decae 2010).
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Morocco
Figures
species

female Spermatheca
(Decae 2010)

species

female Eyes, dorsal view
(Decae 2010)

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.

Morocco   (Decae, 2010; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Tunisia  Removed (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Decae A E (2010) The genus Ummidia Thorell 1875 in the western Mediterranean, a review (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae). Journal of Arachnology 38: 328-340 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 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

Updates
17-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
26-05-2025 Distribution insert Detail
17-06-2020 Datasheet update Detail
17-06-2020 Distribution update Detail