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Filistatidae  Ausserer, 1867 / Pritha  Lehtinen, 1967   7 species

Pritha nana  (Simon, 1868)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002615

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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 2019): Mediterranean, India
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
females: live several years, males: one-year.
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Pesarini unpubl.)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Legittimo et al. 2017)

species

male Habitus
(Legittimo et al. 2017)

species

female Vulva
(Legittimo et al. 2017)

species

female Habitus
(Legittimo et al. 2017)

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. (unpubl.) Spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

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 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018). online at http://www.museoscienzebergamo.it/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=96&Itemid=94 pdf

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

Pesarini C (unpubl.)

World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.01.2019) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates
16-03-2017 Image insert
25-06-2013 Distribution update Old value