Hasarius adansoni (Audouin, 1826)
Description
Male
Male palpal tibia as long as cymbium. Males are almost black in colour, but with white striped pedipalps, a white U-shaped line on the prosoma (open to the front) and one on the opisthosoma (open to the back) they look very conspicuous. The eye area has a rust-red underlay and the opisthosoma has a rust-red band in the middle, which can sometimes be very broad and is framed laterally by two or four white spots.strikingly white haired. Opisthosoma posteriorly with 2 round, white spots.
Body length male: 4.0-7.6 mmFemale
The prosoma of the female is reddish brown, sometimes almost brown-black. The eye area is surrounded by almost white or yellowish hairs, which continue over the pedipalps, which are impressively white or yellowish. The opisthosoma is also surrounded by white-yellowish hairs and sometimes appears quite colourful with a white-yellow stripe in the middle and orange stripes next to it. In some animals, however, the opisthosoma is quite uniformly yellow-brown with washed-out rusty-red spots and dots.
Body length female: 7.0-9.5 mmAdditional information
In greenhouses.
This species of African origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe at least once and did establish.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Brændegaard 1966)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini unpubl.)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Żabka 1997)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Prószyński 1968)
Pedipalp
(Żabka 1997)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Robin-Havret et al. 2024a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Baert et al. 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Baert et al. 2023)
Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Baert et al. 2023)
Habitus
(Żabka 1997)
Epigyne
(Brændegaard 1966)
Epigyne
(Żabka 1997)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Epigyne
(Prószyński 1991)
Epigyne
(Robin-Havret et al. 2024a)
Epigyne
(Baert et al. 2023)
Vulva
(Żabka 1997)
Habitus
(Żabka 1997)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Żabka 1997)
Cheliceral furrow margin
(Brændegaard 1966)
Cheliceral furrow margin
(Prószyński 1991)
Distribution List
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