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Ctenizidae  Thorell, 1887 / Cteniza  Latreille, 1829   3 species

Cteniza moggridgei O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000536

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Description

Male palp with denticles on coxae. Prosoma predominantly black. Male: prosoma roundish, labium with denticles. Opisthosoma predominantly black (black is often fading to brown in preserved specimens), ventrally whitish, distinctly marked off from black body colour.

Body length male: 11-13 mm
Body length female: 14-18 mm
Additional information

Southern of Alps between Antibes (France) and Savona (Italy)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Buchli (1968) lists this species for France and Italy (Mediterranean coast). Chatzaki (pers.comm.) found it on Corsica, which is not confirmed by Decae et al. (2019). Greece (Moggridge 1873, Deltshev 2008b) not counted, Sardinia (Trotta 2011) needs confirmation.
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Italy
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Buchli 1968)

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male Bulbus, frontal view
(Decae et al. 2019)

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male Bulbus, prolateral view
(Decae et al. 2019)

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male Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Decae et al. 2019)

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male Bulbus, ventral view
(Decae et al. 2019)

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male Spermatheca
(Buchli 1968)

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male Eyes, dorsal view
(Buchli 1968)

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male Labium
(Buchli 1968)

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male Habitus
(Buchli 1968)

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male Habitus, lateral view
(Buchli 1968)

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female Spermathecae
(Canard 2018)

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female Spermathecae
(Decae et al. 2019)

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female Eyes, dorsal view
(Buchli 1968)

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female Sternum
(Canard 2018)

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female Habitus
(Buchli 1968)

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female Habitus, lateral view
(Buchli 1968)

Distribution List
France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Buchli H (1968) Notes sur la mygale terricole Cteniza moggridgei (Pick. Cambr. 1874). Revue d'Écologie et de Biologie du Sol 5: 1-40 pdf

Canard A (2018) Une nouvelle espèce de Mygale (Araneae, Ctenizidae): Cteniza genevieveae n. sp. (♀) découverte au sud de la Corse. Revue Arachnologique (2) 5: 30-35 pdf

Decae A, Mammola S, Rizzo P, Isaia M (2019) Systematics, ecology and distribution of the mygalomorph spider genus Cteniza Latreille, 1829 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae). Zootaxa 4550: 499-524 pdf

Deltshev C D (2008b) Faunistic diversity and zoogeography of cave-dwelling spiders on the Balkan Peninsula. p. 327-348. In: Makarov S E & Dimitrijevic R N (Eds): Advances in arachnology and developmental biology. Papers dedicated to Prof. Dr. Božidar Curcic. Monographs 12. 517 pp. pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Moggridge J T (1873) Harvesting ants and trap-door spiders. L. Reeve & Co. London, pp. 1-156, pl. 1-12. pdf

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

Trotta A (2011) Second contribution to the knowledge of the spiders of Sardinia (Arachnida, Araneae). Conservazione Habitat Invertebrati 5: 137-161 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
01-05-2020 Distribution update Detail
01-05-2020 Datasheet update Detail
04-02-2019 Datasheet update Detail
29-01-2019 Image insert
29-01-2019 Distribution update Detail
10-10-2018 Image insert
18-08-2017 Datasheet update Detail
18-08-2017 Distribution update Detail
25-06-2013 Distribution update Detail