Titanoeca nivalis Simon, 1874
Description
Male
Prosoma light yellow, cephalic part reddish brown. Prosoma length: 2.28-2.68 mm. Chelicerae reddish brown, with several short black spines on lateral sides. Sternum brown. Legs light yellowish brown, femora brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum greyish brown to dark slate-grey, with 2 whitish spots in the middle, venter with a broad greyish brown median band (Almquist, 2006).
Body length male: 4.5-6.0 mmFemale
Colouration as in males, prosoma slightly darker. Prosoma length: 2.36 mm- 2.96 mm.
Body length female: 4.5-7 mmAdditional information
Under stones and dead wood in humid-cool, shadowy places, up to 2600 m
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Leech 1972)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Leech 1972)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Almquist 2007)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Almquist 2007)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Almquist 2007)
Tibial apophysis
(Thaler 1981c)
Leg I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Almquist 2007)
Epigyne
(Leech 1972)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Almquist 2007)
Vulva
(Hubert 1966)
Vulva
(Leech 1972)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Almquist 2007)
Leg I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Femur I, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
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.
References
Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 
Almquist S (2007) Swedish Araneae, part 2 – families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 63(2006): 285-601
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Hubert M (1966) Remarques sur quelques espèces d'araignées appartenant au genre Titanoeca Thorell 1870. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 38: 238-246
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
Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm
Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Leech R (1972) A revision of the nearctic Amaurobiidae (Arachnida: Araneida). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 84: 1-182
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Thaler K (1981c) Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Nordtirol (Österreich) (Arachnida: Aranei). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 61: 105-150
Thaler K (1994b) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 2. Orthognathe, cribellate und haplogyne Familien, Phocidae, Zodariidae, Mimetidae sowie Argiopiformia (ohne Linyphiidae s.l.) (Arachnida: Araneida). Mit Bemerkungen zur Spinnenfauna der Ostalpen. Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 73(1993): 69-119
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2