Cryphoeca thaleri Wunderlich, 1995
Description
Male
Prosoma dark brown, anterior part distinctly narrower. Sternum medium brown. Legs light to medium brown, with darker annulations. Opisthosoma egg-shaped, dorsum dark grey-brown with more or less distinct light transverse bands, venter distinctly lighter.
Female
Female unknown.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1995h)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)
Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1995h)
Epigyne
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)
Epigyne
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)
Vulva, ventral view
(Brignoli 1978a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)
Vulva, ventral view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)
Vulva, ventro-caudal view
(Ponomarev & Mikhailov 2025)
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
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 
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
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Ponomarev A V, Chumachenko Y A (2014) Spiders (Aranei) in herpetobiont mesofauna of the Northwest Caucasus. The South of Russia: Ecology, Development 2014(2): 95-101
Ponomarev A V, Mikhailov K G (2025) Spiders of the genus Cryphoeca Thorell, 1870 (Aranei: Cybaeidae) (Aranei: Cybaeidae) in the Caucasus. Arthropoda Selecta 34: 604-610
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Wunderlich J (1995h) Beschreibung einer bisher unbekannten Art der Gattung Cryphoeca Thorell 1870 aus der Türkei (Arachnida: Araneae: Dictynoidea: ?Dictynidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 719-721