araneae - Pritha nana

Description

Male

Palp male: strikingly long. Body colour brown to dark brown, males lighter. eyes arranged closely to each other and together on elevation. Legs: femur without spines, tibia with some spines, but variable. Opisthosoma blackish, dorsally with white patch on anterior part.

Body length male: 2.5-4.4 mm

Female

Female: no visible epigynal structures. Prosoma glossy, brown, with dark borderline, pattern more or less distinct. Legs without spines, uniformly light coloured, sometimes femur and tibia darker. Opisthosoma greyish, dorsally with lighter median longitudinal patch on anterior part, sometimes posteriorly with dark chevrons. Body with variable pubescence.

Body length female: 2.5-4.4 mm

Additional information

Under stones, on walls and buildings, builds irregular webs with tube, where the spider stays.

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2022): Mediterranean, India

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

females: live several years, males: one-year.

Distribution List

Algeria (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Bulgaria Removed (Blagoev et al., 2018; Naumova & Deltshev, 2021) ||| Croatia (no references) ||| Cyprus (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| France (no references) ||| France / Corsica (no references) ||| Greece (no references) ||| Greece / Crete (no references) ||| Italy (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia (Pantini & Isaia, 2019; Pantini et al., 2013) ||| Libya (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| North Macedonia (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Portugal (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland (no references) ||| Tunisia (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||

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)

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254

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

Legittimo CM, Simeon E, Di Pompeo P, Kulczycki A (2017) The Italian species of Pritha (Araneae, Filistatidae): a critical revision and description of two new species. Zootaxa 4243: 201-248

Naumova M, Deltshev C (2021) New faunistic and taxonomic notes on the haplogyne and cribellate spiders (Araneae: Dictynidae, Dysderidae, Eresidae, Filistatidae, Sicariidae) from three Balkan countries. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67: 63-76

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152

Pantini P, Sassu A, Serra G (2013) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida Araneae) of Sardinia. Biodiversity Journal 4: 3-104

Pesarini C (unpubl.)

WSC (2022) World Spider Catalog. Version 23.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (21.07.2022) doi: 10.24436/2

22-02-2021	Distribution update	Detail
16-03-2017	Image insert
25-06-2013	Distribution update	Detail

Pritha nana (Simon, 1868)