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

"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.

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 (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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