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Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Textrix  Sundevall, 1833   7 species

Textrix maroccana Lecigne, 2023

Description

Colour: prosoma, legs, sternum and spinnerets pale yellowish, cephalic part of the prosoma barely darker; chelicerae brown; opisthosoma greyish brown. Cheliceral promargin with 3 teeth, the middle one the largest; cheliceral retromargin with 2 teeth widely spaced.

Male palp: cymbium pale yellowish, slender and long; RTA straight, slightly wider at the base (better visible in postero-retrolateral view), then evenly and finely tapering, pointing in posterior direction; embolus filiform, ovoid, originating at a 7 o’clock position, tip at a 5 o’clock position, apically curved to fit behind the terminal part of the conductor; conductor: its anterior part small scale-shaped, median part with a thin prolateral translucent extension, terminal part horn-shaped pointing prolaterally.

Body length male: 5.3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
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Distribution comment: Only known from one cave in the High Atlas.
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Morocco
Phenology
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Distribution List
Morocco   (Lecigne et al., 2023; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) |||
References

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 (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
19-12-2024 Distribution update Detail
20-01-2024 Datasheet update Detail
16-01-2024 Image insert
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