Harpactea grisea (Canestrini, 1868)
Description
Male
Palp: patella with a strong protuberance, tip of bulb with a complex strip-shaped structure. Prosoma 2.9-3.1 mm long.
Female
Prosoma 3.3 mm long. Legs: femur I with 4 to 8 spines, femur II, III and IV with numerous spines.
Body length female: 6.78 mmAdditional information
On debris slope.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Pesarini unpubl.)
Bulbus
(Alicata 1966c)
Bulbus
(Alicata 1966c)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Alicata 1966c)
Vulva, ventral view
(Brignoli 1979d)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Gasparo 2014b)
Vulva, ventral view
(Gasparo 2014b)
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.
References
Alicata P (1966c) Le Harpactea (Araneae, Dysderidae) della fauna italiana e considerazioni sulla loro origine. Atti dell' Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali in Catania (6) 18: 190-221 
Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244
Brignoli P M (1979d) Ragni d'Italia XXIX. Dysderidae nuovi o interessanti (Araneae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 111: 17-26
Gasparo F (2014b) Descrizione di una nuova specie del genere Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 del Carso triestino (Araneae, Dysderidae). Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste 56: 207-217
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522
Pesarini C (unpubl.)
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
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