Clubionidae  Simon, 1878 / Clubiona  Latreille, 1804   48 species

Clubiona hilaris Simon, 1878

Description

Embolus short and bent. Epigyne with backwardly protruding posterior margin. Prosoma yellow-brown to brown, margin and radial pattern slightly darker. Sternum pale yellow, brown margined. Chelicerae brown to red-brown. Legs bright. Opisthosoma mainly in the posterior half with fine, brown arc-like lines, sometimes broken into rows of spots.

Body length male: 6.0-8.0 mm
Body length female: 6.0-8.8 mm
Additional information

in herbaceous and bush layer, 1500-2300 m

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Romania, North Macedonia
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Distribution List
Austria   (Thaler, 1997c) ||| Azerbaijan  Removed (Nuruyeva & Zamani, 2025) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| North Macedonia   (Deltshev et al., 2013) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

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

Deltshev C, Komnenov M, Blagoev G, Georgiev T, Lazarov S, Stojkoska E, Naumova M (2013) Faunistic diversity of spiders (Araneae) in Galichitsa Mountain (FYR Macedonia). Biodiversity Data Journal 1(e977): 1-70 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

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 pdf

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

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Nuruyeva T, Zamani A (2025) An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa 5680: 1-168 pdf

Pesarini C (unpubl.)

Simon E (1932) Les arachnides de France 6 (4). Paris (Roret): 773-978 pdf

Sterghiu C (1985) Fam. Clubionidae. Fauna Republicii Socialiste România (Arachnida) 5 (4): 1-168 pdf

Thaler K (1981a) Über Oreonetides quadridentatus (Wunderlich, 1972) nov. comb. (Arachnida: Aranei, Linyphiidae). Archives des Sciences, Genève 34: 143-152 pdf

Thaler K (1981c) Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Nordtirol (Österreich) (Arachnida: Aranei). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 61: 105-150 pdf

Thaler K (1997c) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 4: Dionycha (Anyphaenidae, Clubionidae, Heteropodidae, Liocranidae, Philodromidae, Salticidae, Thomisidae, Zoridae). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 77: 233-285 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
18-08-2025 Distribution insert Detail
26-01-2025 Distribution update Detail