Ero furcata (Villers, 1789)
Description
Palp male: tibia approximately 2.7 times as long as wide. Cymbium oval, proximally elevated, forming a conical tubercle. Conductor with prolateral furrow. Tip typically with retrolateral and ventral, finger-shaped processes. Paracymbium with bipartite, whitish basal process. Epigyne with characteristic lateral lobes. Median part wider than long and posteriorly bordered by chitinous wall. Septum white, longish. Vulva with short entrance ducts and round receptacula. Prosoma yellowish-brown, eye region and a broad stripe on margin darker, almost black. A black line between dorsal groove and eye region. Sternum yellowish-white, with dark spots. Chelicerae dark brown to black. Legs yellowish, annulated with red-brown to black. Opisthosoma anterior of tubercles dark, brighter spotted posteriorly, black, reddish and grey on yellow background.
Body length male: 2.5-3 mmBody length female: 3.5-4.8 mm
Additional information
on trees, bushes and shrubs near the ground, difficult to find
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wiehle 1953)
Pedipalp
(Thaler et al. 2004)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1995)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler et al. 2004)
Pedipalp
(Locket et al. 1974)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Conductor
(Thaler et al. 2004)
Cymbium
(Thaler et al. 2004)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Ponomarev 2008a)
Leg I
(Ponomarev 2008a)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1953)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Thaler et al. 2004)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1953)
Vulva
(Fjellberg unpubl.)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Sternum
(Fjellberg unpubl.)
Leg II
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Metatarsus II
(Wiehle 1953)
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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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)
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Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152
Fjellberg A (unpubl.)
Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin
Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311
Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69
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Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230
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Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Marusik Y M, Kunt K B (2011) Spiders (Aranei) new to the fauna of Turkey. 9. Two new family records (Mysmenidae and Synaphridae) and one species record of Mimetidae. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 7: 3-5
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Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Ponomarev A V (2008a) Additions to the fauna of spiders (Aranei) of the from south of Russia and western Kazakhstan: new taxa and finds. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 4: 49-61
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.
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Thaler K, Harten A van, Knoflach B (2004) Pirate spiders of the genus Ero C.L. Koch from southern Europe, Yemen, and Ivory Coast, with two new species (Arachnida, Araneae, Mimetidae). Denisia 13: 359-368
Wiehle H (1953) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae), IX. Orthognatha-Cribellata-Haplogynae, Entelegynae (Pholcidae, Zodariidae, Oxyopidae, Mimetidae, Nesticidae). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 42: 1-150
WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (25.10.2023) doi: 10.24436/2
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