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Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Dysdera  Latreille, 1804   210 species

Dysdera galinae  Dimitrov, 2018

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050594

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Description
Male

Prosoma length 5.95, width 3.70; clypeus width 0.65; chelicera length 2.18, width 0.85; sternum length (incl. labium) 4.45, width 2.15; opisthosoma length 5.25, width 3.00.

Colouration: Prosoma intense red-brown. Sternum and chelicerae reddish, a little lighter than prosoma. Legs yellow. Opisthosoma grey-white. Dorsal surface of chelicerae and anterior dorsal part of prosoma covered with tiny, seta-bearing tubercles. Eyes: AE separated by 0.5× their diameter, posterior eye row procurved; posterior eyes close to each other and to AE, almost touching.

Male palp: bulb orange, shaped as an irregular cylinder. Apex with convex an oval chitinized part, bearing thorn-like process, projecting outwards from its centre and directed forward.

Body length male: 11.3 mm
Female

Prosoma length 6.75, width 4.15; clypeus 0.60; chelicera length 2.10, width 0.98; sternum length (incl. labium) 5.25, width 2.55; opisthosoma length 7.50, width 3.75.

Colouration and eye arrangement as in male. 

Vulva: spermatheca with straight lateral wings. Dorsal arc of anterior diverticulum shaped like a regularly curved arc, dorsal arc of posterior diverticulum likewise straight. Ventral wall triangular.

Body length female: 14.35 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Turkey
Figures
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male Bulbus, prolateral view
(Dimitrov 2018b)

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male Bulbus, prolateral view
(Dimitrov 2018b)

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male Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Dimitrov 2018b)

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male Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Dimitrov 2018b)

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male Bulbus, ventral view
(Dimitrov 2018b)

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male Bulbus, ventral view
(Dimitrov 2018b)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Dimitrov 2018b)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Dimitrov 2018b)

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.

Turkey (Asia)   (no references) |||
References

Dimitrov D (2018b) A contribution to the study of Turkish Dysderidae with description of a new Dysdera (Araneae, Dysderidae). Arachnology 17: 457-462 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
14-03-2019 Datasheet update Detail
13-03-2019 Distribution update Detail
09-10-2018 Image insert