Filistata insidiatrix (Forsskål, 1775)
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 mmFemale
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 mmAdditional 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
Phenology
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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
(Brignoli 1982)
Vulva
(Zonstein et al. 2018b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Naumova & Deltshev 2021)
Calamistrum
(Brignoli 1982)
Distribution List
References
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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). [N.B.: few records from this paper are not taken over and not commented] 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 (2019) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2019 [last updated 1 June 2019], 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). http://araneae.it. 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 21.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (03.01.2021) 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
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