araneae - Filistata insidiatrix

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Filistata insidiatrix (Forsskål, 1775)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002564

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Description

Male

Male palp very long and slender. Tibia at least 4 times as long as bulb. Large, brown to dark brown species.

Body length male: 7-9 mm

Female

Females: no epigynal structures visible from outside. Prosoma light brown, with thin dark borderline, cephalic part with triangular brown patch. Body with light pubescence. Legs brown, with blotches on femur. Opisthosoma uniform light brown.

Body length female: 9-14 mm

Additional information

In cork oak forests, scrubland, dry-stone walls, under stones, in crevices or in entrances of caves, Mediterranean area, ranging to South Tyrol in the north. Build irregular webs with retreat tube.

Distribution

Presence

No data

Distribution comment: Hungary: not Chyzer & Kulczyński (1897: nowadays Kroatien), but Zonstein & Marusik (2019: 68, Budapest)

Global distribution (WSC 2021): Cape Verde Is., Mediterranean to Turkmenistan

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Females: several years, with juveniles January, May and December. Males: spring and autumn.

Figures

Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1982)

Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Crespo et al. 2009a)

Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Naumova & Deltshev 2021)

Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Naumova & Deltshev 2021)

Epigyne
(Naumova & Deltshev 2021)

Vulva
(Brignoli 1982)

Vulva
(Zonstein et al. 2018b)

Vulva, dorsal view
(Naumova & Deltshev 2021)

Calamistrum
(Brignoli 1982)

Distribution List

Albania (Naumova & Deltshev, 2021) ||| Algeria (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Azerbaijan (Otto, 2020) ||| Bulgaria (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia (no references) ||| Cyprus (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| France (no references) ||| France / Corsica (no references) ||| Georgia (Otto, 2020) ||| Greece (no references) ||| Greece / Crete (no references) ||| Hungary (Zonstein & Marusik, 2019) ||| Italy (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Libya (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Malta (Pfliegler et al., 2017) ||| Morocco (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| North Macedonia (no references) ||| Portugal (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Slovenia (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Turkey (Asia) (Danışman et al., 2021a) |||

References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

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

Brignoli P M (1982) Contribution à la connaissance des Filistatidae paléarctiques (Araneae). Revue Arachnologique 4: 65-75

Chyzer C, Kulczyński W (1897) Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, pp. 147-366, pl. 6-10.

Crespo L, Cardoso P, Silva I, Menezes D (2009a) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Selvagens Islands (Portugal): additions to the current knowledge. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 45: 343-348

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2021a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2021 [last updated 1 January 2021], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91

Marusik Y M, Zonstein S L (2014) A synopsis of Middle East Filistata (Aranei: Filistatidae), with description of new species from Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta 23: 199-205

Naumova M, Deltshev C (2021) New faunistic and taxonomic notes on the haplogyne and cribellate spiders (Araneae: Dictynidae, Dysderidae, Eresidae, Filistatidae, Sicariidae) from three Balkan countries. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67: 63-76

Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152

Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110

WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.09.2021) doi: 10.24436/2

Zonstein S L, Marusik A M, Grabolle A (2018b) A remarkably small new species of Filistata (Aranei: Filistatidae) from Portugal. Arthropoda Selecta 27: 49-52

Zonstein S, Marusik Y M (2019) A revision of the spider genus Filistata (Araneae: Filistatidae). Arachnology 18: 53-93

Updates

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