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Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Harpactea  Bristowe, 1939   214 species

Harpactea pugio  Varol & Akpınar, 2016

Description

Prosoma light brown, darker toward the lateral edge and eye area. Chelicerae up to three-quarters of the length of prosoma. Legs white in ventral side, yellow in dorsal side. Opisthosoma yellow, with large pale yellow spots. Sternum, labia, maxilla and chelicerae light brown. Pedipalp and cymbium light brown, tegulum white.

Additional information

Pine forest.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Turkey
Phenology
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"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.

Turkey (Asia)   (Varol & Akpinar, 2016; Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 21 February 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Kunt K B, Danışman T, Yağmur E A (2025c) Two new species of Harpactea (Araneae, Dysderidae) from the Aegean region of Türkiye, with the redescription of Harpactea cruriformis Bosmans, 2011. Zootaxa 5601: 288-304 pdf

Özkütük R S, Yağmur E A, Kunt K B, Karakaş Kiliç G, Elverici M (2018) Türkiye'den bilinen iki Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (Araneae, Dysderidae) türünün yeniden betimlenmesi [Redescription of two species of Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (Araneae, Dysderidae) known from Turkey]. Anadolu University Journal of Science and Technology C 7: 20-30 pdf

Varol M İ, Akpinar A (2016) Two new spider species of the family Dysderidae (Araneae) from Turkey. Zoology in the Middle East 62: 171-176 pdf

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
28-04-2025 Image insert
16-11-2024 Distribution update Detail
10-03-2018 Image insert
30-12-2016 Distribution update Detail
30-12-2016 Image insert