Cheiracanthiidae  Wagner, 1887 / Cheiracanthium  C. L. Koch, 1839   33 species

Cheiracanthium canariense Wunderlich, 1987

Description
Male

Prosoma and legs brown-yellow. Chelicerae not darkened. Opisthosoma without dorsal longitudinal band. Chelicera without basal hump. Pedipalps: Tibial apophysis long and apically divided. Cymbium apophysis long and mostly rectangularly bent.

prosoma length: 2.7-4.2 mm.

Body length male: 8-9 mm
Female

Prosoma and legs brown-yellow. Chelicerae not darkened. Epigyne: Depression wider than long. Vulva very variable, more or less visible from outside.

prosoma length: 3.3-4.2 mm.

Body length female: 8-9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Canary Is., Turkey, Egypt
Figures
Distribution List
Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

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 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 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

Wunderlich J (1987) Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen, 435 pp. pdf

Updates
07-11-2024 Distribution update Detail
10-05-2016 Datasheet update Detail
18-02-2014 Image insert