Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Eratigena  Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi, 2013   22 species

Eratigena talassemtane  Lecigne & Bosmans, 2023

Beschreibung

Colour: prosoma greyish brown, with wide pale median and marginal bands; chelicerae brown; sternum yellowish with distinct pale median band tape in the rear half; legs pale yellowish, not annulated, metatarsi and tarsi darkened; opisthosoma dorsally greyish brown with 2 lines of lighter spots extending posteriorly by chevrons.
Chelicerae: Cheliceral promargin with 3 teeth, the middle one the largest, the proximal one the smallest; cheliceral retromargin with 6 teeth, the four distal ones subequal and conical, the two proximal ones of decreasing size.
Metatarsi I with long hairs.

Male palp: RTA with two branches, the ventral one small, conical and translucid, pointing in anterior direction, the dorsal one strongly sclerotized, triangular, robust, with broad base, the dorsal part a small sharp tooth pointing backward; median apophysis partly membranous and partly with a distal accent-shaped sclerite, weakly sclerotized, prolaterally in the shape of a stretched lamella with almost parallel edges; embolus filiform, originating at a 10 o’clock position, tip at a 5 o’clock position; conductor terminally bifid, strongly sclerotized, unequal, the prolateral branch larger and slightly twisted.

Körperlänge Männchen: 8.9 mm
Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  kein Nachweis
Verbreitung Kommentar: Only known from one cave, in the Talassemtane National Park.
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2024): Morocco
Phänologie
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"No reference" bedeutet nicht, dass die Art in diesem Land nicht vorkommt, sondern dass wir die Referenz hierfür noch nicht eingefügt haben. Wir arbeiten daran.

Morocco   (Lecigne et al., 2023; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) |||
Literatur

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2023) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – first note – on new records of cave spiders. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 66: 44-71 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
19-12-2024 Distribution update Detail
20-01-2024 Datasheet update Detail
15-01-2024 Image insert
10-01-2024 Distribution insert Detail