Eresidae  C. L. Koch, 1845 / Eresus  Walckenaer, 1805   28 species

Eresus hermani Kovács, Prazsák, Eichardt, Vári & Gyurkovics, 2015

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 2.9-4.1 mm.

Female

Prosoma dark orange-brown, densely covered with off-white to light brown hairs. Prosoma length: 6.6-9.9 mm. Opisthosoma brown-black, densely covered with long black hairs and some short light hairs.

Additional information

Copulation period: end of March to end of April.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Czechia, Hungary
Phenology
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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.

Czechia   (Zamani et al., 2025c) ||| Hungary   (Kovács et al., 2015) |||
References

Kovács G, Prazsák I, Eichardt J, Vári G, Gyurkovics H (2015) A new ladybird spider from Hungary (Araneae, Eresidae). ZooKeys 494: 13-30 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

Zamani A, Szabó K, Szűts T (2025c) Persian treasures: integrative taxonomy reveals high species' diversity of ladybird spiders (Araneae: Eresidae: Eresus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(zlaf086): 1-19 pdf

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