Amaurobiidae  Thorell, 1869 / Amaurobius  C. L. Koch, 1837   38 species

Amaurobius obustus  L. Koch, 1868

Description

Tibial apophysis dorsally with a slender lateral process, median process long and slender. Epigyne with long lateral parts, reaching end of median part. Prosoma yellow-brown. Sternum yellow-brown. Chelicerae red-brown. Legs yellow-brown, with darker spots. Opisthosoma light grey-yellow, dorsally in the anterior half a black square marking becoming a dark longitudinal stripe posteriorly.

Body length male: 3-4 mm
Body length female: 4.5-5.5 mm
Additional information

Under stones.

Frequency: Rare

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Distribution comment: Germany: records not confirmed, therefore deleted (Blick et al., 2016)
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Europe
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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.

Austria   (Kropf & Horak, 1996) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) |||
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) pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Denis J (1963b) Araignées des Dolomites. Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 121: 253-271 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Kropf C, Horak P (1996) Die Spinnen der Steiermark (Arachnida, Araneae). Mitteilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Steiermark Sonderheft: 1-112 pdf

Loksa I (1969) Pokok I-Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133 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

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

Pesarini C (1991) The Amaurobiidae of Northern Italy (Araneae). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 131: 261-276 pdf

Thaler K (1990b) Amaurobius ruffoi n.sp., eine weitere Reliktart der Südalpen ? mit Bemerkungen über die Amaurobiidae der Alpen (Arachnida: Aranei). Zoologischer Anzeiger 225: 241-252 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

Wiehle H (1953) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae), IX. Orthognatha-Cribellata-Haplogynae, Entelegynae (Pholcidae, Zodariidae, Oxyopidae, Mimetidae, Nesticidae). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 42: 1-150 pdf

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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