Filistatidae  Ausserer, 1867 / Pritha  Lehtinen, 1967   7 species

Pritha nana  (Simon, 1868)

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 2024): Mediterranean, India
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
females: live several years, males: one-year.
Figures
Distribution List

"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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Bulgaria  Removed (Blagoev et al., 2018; Naumova & Deltshev, 2021) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| 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) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Dentici, 2019; Dentici & Amata, 2024) ||| Libya   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Slovenia   (Kuralt et al., 2024) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Ukraine   (Mikhailov, 2022) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

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) pdf

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 pdf

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 pdf

Dentici A (2019) Third contribution to the knowledge of Sicilian spider fauna (Arachnida Araneae). Biodiversity Journal 10: 117-120 pdf

Dentici A, Amata F C (2024) New data on the arachnofauna (Arachnidae Araneae Opiliones) of Enna and surrounding areas (Sicily, Italy) with some first reports for Sicily. Biodiversity Journal 15: 363-375 pdf

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

Kuralt Ž, Pajek Arambašič N, Ferle M, Kostanjšek R (2024) A contribution to the Slovenian spider fauna – V. Natura Sloveniae 26: 29-42 pdf

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

Mikhailov K G (2022) Progress in the study of the spider fauna (Aranei) of Russia and neighbouring regions: a 2020 update. Invertebrate Zoology 19: 295-304, Supplements 1.01-1.15, 2.01-2.24. pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

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 pdf

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 pdf

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 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.)

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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