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Filistatidae  Ausserer, 1867 / Zaitunia  Lehtinen, 1967   5 species

Zaitunia kerkyra Lecigne, 2023

Description
Male

Colour: whole spider pale brown to yellowish, prosoma and sternum pale yellow, area between eyes dark brown to brownish-black, abdomen plain, without any pattern.

Prosoma with a few long-scattered setae, denser and curved backward in front of the eye area, absent on the edges of the carapace; legs, sternum and abdomen densely covered with long lying brown hairs.
Pedipalp: femur and tibia subequal in length; tibia about 1.4 times wider than femur, wider in basal part than terminally; cymbium and bulb subequal in length; bulb conical, embolus gently curved subapically, at the junction between the neck of embolus and the embolus proper.

Body length male: 2.7-3.2 mm
Female

Colour: As in male but somewhat darker, blackish colouration in the eye region restricted to the areas between the median and lateral eyes, legs medium-brownish, palpal tarsi dark brown.

Vulva: median receptacles club-like, quite narrow at the base then wider, with heads wider than stems, separated by 2.5 diameters of head; lateral receptacles subglobular, with inconspicuous stems, separated from median receptacles by less than their diameter; pores present on the heads.

Body length female: 4.2-4.8 mm
Additional information

Halophile species.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Only known from Corfu
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Greece   (Lecigne, 2023) |||
References

Lecigne S (2023) New contribution to the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of Kerkyra (Corfu) and update of the provisional checklist of species from the Ionian Island. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 38 (1, suppl.): 1-51 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
23-09-2023 Datasheet update Detail
21-09-2023 Image insert
21-09-2023 Distribution insert Detail