Asagena italica (Knoflach, 1996)
Description
Male
Male palp with blunt, inconspicuous accompanying process of embolus. Prosoma dark brown. Sternum black-brown. Chelicerae black-brown. Legs I-II dark brown, III-IV brown, patella, tibia, metatarsus and tarsus yellow-brown. Opisthosoma black, dorsally with white or yellow pattern.
Body length male: 4.4-5.2 mmFemale
Epigyne hardly furrowed.
Body length female: 4.2-5.0 mmAdditional information
in olive groves, extensively farmed cultivated land or wasteland
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Knoflach 1996b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Knoflach 1996b)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Knoflach 1996b)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Knoflach 1996b)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Iorio 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Iorio 2023)
Bulbus, prolateral view
(Knoflach 1996b)
Embolar base, retrolateral view
(Knoflach 1996b)
Epigyne
(Knoflach 1996b)
Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Knoflach 1996b)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Knoflach 1996b)
Vulva, ventral view
(Knoflach 1996b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Knoflach 1996b)
Vulva, variation, dorsal view
(Knoflach 1996b)
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.
References
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 
Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76
Iorio E (2023) Les peuplements d’araignées (Araneae) de la réserve naturelle régionale des Isles du Drac (Isère, France), avec focus sur deux zones humides. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 10: 4-40
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
Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95
Knoflach B (1996b) Die Arten der Steatoda phalerata-Gruppe in Europa (Arachnida: Araneae, Theridiidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 69: 377-404
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2