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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Neottiura  Menge, 1868   6 species

Neottiura curvimana (Simon, 1914)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007854

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Description
Male

Palp brown. Cymbium very large. Prosoma 1 mm long. Prosoma, sternum and chelicerae brown. Legs yellow-brown, patella darker, tibia and metatarsus apically darker. Opisthosoma light brown, dorsally with black and white patches, ventrally as in female.

Body length male: 2.2 mm
Female

Vulva with swollen epigaster, entrance ducts strongly convoluted, forming double helix. Palp: uniformly light yellow. Prosoma 0.8-1 mm long. Prosoma, sternum and chelicerae brown. Legs light yellow, with dark annulations. Opisthosoma whitish reticulated with light brown, dorsally with 2 lateral series of small dark spots, and a single median spot posteriorly, ventrally dark, with a transverse median white patch and 2 small white spots near spinnerets.

Body length female: 2.0-3.0 mm
Additional information

In cork oak woods, heathlands and grasslands.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France, Algeria
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Knoflach 1999)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Knoflach 1999)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Knoflach 1999)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Cárdenas & Barrientos 2011)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Cárdenas & Barrientos 2011)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Wunderlich 2023)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Cárdenas & Barrientos 2011)

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male Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Vanuytven et al. 1994)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Vanuytven et al. 1994)

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female Vulva
(Knoflach 1999)

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female Vulva
(Knoflach 1999)

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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Cárdenas M, Barrientos J A (2011) Arañas del olivar andaluz (Arachnida; Araneae). Aspectos faunísticos. Zoologica Baetica 22: 99-136 pdf

Knoflach B (1999) The comb-footed spider genera Neottiura and Coleosoma in Europe (Araneae, Theridiidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 71: 341-371 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Vanuytven H, Van Keer J, Poot P (1994) Kogelspinnen verzameld in Zuid-Europa door P. Poot (Araneae, Theridiidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 9: 1-19 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 (2023) Contribution to the spider (Araneida) fauna of the Algarve, Portugal, with notes on the phylogeny of the superfamily Araneoidea and the description of the new araneoid family Fonteferridae. Beiträge zur Araneologie 16: 4-112 pdf

Updates
29-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
25-11-2023 Image insert
02-02-2017 Image insert
14-10-2015 Image insert