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Desidae  Pocock, 1895 / Badumna  Thorell, 1890   2 species

Badumna longinqua  (L. Koch, 1867)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021465

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Description
Male

Embolus long and sigmoid.
Anterior median eyes about 1.4x larger than anterior lateral eyes.

Body length male: 11.0 mm
Female

Epigyne with undivided depression and 2 lateral denticles. 

Body length female: 15.0 mm
Additional information

Introduced in Germany, in hothouses, in the United Kingdom and in the Netherlands also established in urban areas.

This species of Australian origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe at least once and could establish meanwhile

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Australia. Introduced to New Zealand, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, South Africa, Britain, Netherlands, Germany, Japan
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ubick et al. 2005)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Haddad & Foord 2021)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Haddad & Foord 2021)

species

male Palpal tibia
(Lehtinen 1967)

species

male Habitus, dorsal view
(Haddad & Foord 2021)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Ubick et al. 2005)

species

female Epigyne
(Haddad & Foord 2021)

species

female Habitus, dorsal view
(Haddad & Foord 2021)

species

Eyes, dorsal view
(Ubick et al. 2005)

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.

Germany   (Kielhorn & Rödel, 2011) ||| Netherlands   (Noordijk & Wiersma, 2024) ||| United Kingdom   (Gallon, 2023) |||
References

Gallon R (2023) Badumna longinqua (L. Koch, 1867) an Australian spider established outside in Britain. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 158, SRS News 107: 3-5 pdf

Haddad C R, Foord S H (2021) Future climate may limit the spread of the Australian house spider Badumna longinqua (Araneae: Desidae) in South Africa. Journal of Arachnology 49: 332-339 pdf

Kielhorn K-H, Rödel I (2011) Badumna longinqua nach Europa eingeschleppt (Araneae: Desidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 42: 1-4 pdf

Lehtinen P T (1967) Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468 pdf

Noordijk J, Wiersma M (2024) De Australische huisspin Badumna longinqua vestigt zich in Nederland (Araneae, Desidae) [The Australian spider Badumna longinqua settles in the Netherlands (Araneae: Desidae)]. Entomologische Berichten 84: 138-139 pdf

Ubick D, Paquin P, Cushing P E, Roth V (eds.) (2005) Spiders of North America: an identification manual. American Arachnol Soc Keene (New Hampshire), 377 p

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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