Paracymbium with large dorsal part, projecting and provided with ridges and tubercles. Epigyne with distinctly marked off trapezoid median plate. Prosoma yellowish green, with irregular black stripes, margin black. Sternum black. Chelicerae red-brown. Legs yellowish green, annulated and spotted irregularly with black. Opisthosoma greenish, brownish to almost black, dorsally with vague folium, ventrally with broad, dark median part.
Body length male: 7.5-8 mmOn rocks, walls and in caves, always near creeks or at other places with high humidity.
Rare variant: with broad median stripe on the opisthosoma (see https://wiki.arages.de/images/d/d5/Metellina-merianae_EckhartDerschmidt.jpg).
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
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"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.
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