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Cheiracanthiidae  Wagner, 1887 / Cheiracanthium  C. L. Koch, 1839   35 species

Cheiracanthium furculatum  Karsch, 1879

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023316

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Description
Male

Prosoma length: 3.4 mm.

Body length male: 7.8 mm
Female

Epigyne oval, with a bean-shaped depression containing 2 oval pits. Prosoma length: 4.5 mm.

Body length female: 10.4 mm
Additional information

This species of African origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe at least once but could not establish so far.

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2023): Cape Verde Is., Africa, Madagascar, Comoros
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Bayer 2014)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bayer 2014)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bayer 2014)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Rozwałka et al. 2017a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosselaers 2013)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bayer 2014)

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female Epigyne
(Rozwałka et al. 2017a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Bosselaers 2013)

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female Vulva
(Bayer 2014)

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female Vulva, postero-dorsal view
(Bayer 2014)

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female Tarsal claw of leg I
(Bosselaers 2013)

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female Spinnerets
(Bosselaers 2013)

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.

Belgium   (Bosselaers, 2013; Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Germany   (Bayer, 2014) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka et al., 2017a) |||
References

Bayer S (2014) Miscellaneous notes on European and African Cheiracanthium species (Araneae: Miturgidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 47: 19-34 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 pdf

Bosselaers J (2013) An alien in the grapes: a potentially agressive African spider imported into Belgium. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28: 22-28 pdf

Rozwałka R, Rutkowski T, Bielak-Bielecki P (2017a) New data on introduced and rare synanthropic spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) in Poland (II). Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin-Polonia 71: 59-85 pdf

WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (14.02.2023) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
01-03-2023 Distribution update Detail
07-07-2021 Distribution update Detail
04-04-2017 Distribution update Detail
04-04-2017 Image insert
26-02-2015 Distribution update Detail
12-08-2014 Image insert
29-07-2014 Distribution update Detail
04-02-2014 Image insert
04-02-2014 Distribution update Detail