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Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Histopona  Thorell, 1870   23 species

Histopona laeta  (Kulczyński, 1897)

Description

Male palp with blunt patellar apophysis. Epigyne covered by heart-shaped plate. Prosoma dark brown, with 2 black radial stripes, in females with bright lateral margin. Labium black. Sternum dark. Legs ochre-brown, coxae bright, terminally with dark rings. Femur ventrally 4 dark semicircles. Tibia annulated. Opisthosoma dorsally with dense long hairs, dark median band, anteriorly with longish oval, light yellow spot, larger than the following 4 chevrons, ventrally grey. Spinnerets with long hairs, dorsally black, ventrally brighter.

Body length male: 6 mm
Body length female: <6 mm
Additional information

in forest and forest edges respectively

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Balkans
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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.

Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Kosovo   (Grapci-Kotori et al., 2022) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Serbia   (no references) |||
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) pdf

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

Grapci-Kotori L, Geci D, Naumova M, Ibrahimi H, Bilalli A, Musliu M, Gashi A, Kasumaj E (2022) Spiders from Sharr Mountain – new faunistic data (Arachnida: Araneae). Natura Croatica 31: 335-350 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Weiss I, Rusdea E (1998) Validierung der endemischen Trichterspinne Histopona laeta (Kulczynski, 1897) mit Erstbescheibung des Männchens (Arachnida: Araneae: Agelenidae. Mauritania (Altenburg) 16: 515-520 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
25-03-2023 Image insert
10-01-2023 Distribution insert Detail
27-08-2019 Distribution update Detail
05-12-2013 Distribution update Detail