Prosoma yellowish-brown, bright, with unpaired bristle posterior to anterior median eyes. Sternum light yellow. Legs light yellow, uniformly provided with long bristles. Tarsus IV with serrated bristles. Opisthosoma light grey, covered with long, fine hairs.
Body length male: 2.2-3.5 mmThis species of American origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe and did establish (Nardi et al., 2023).
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
"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.
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Locket G H, Millidge A F, Merrett P (1974) British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp.
Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13
Nardi D, Lami F, Pantini P, Marini L (2019) Using species-habitat networks to inform agricultural landscape management for spiders. Biological Conservation 239(108275): 1-8
Nardi D, Pantini P, Rizzo P, Trespidi G, Turetta A, Barbieri G, Ballarin F (2023) A comprehensive update on the morphology and distribution of the invasive scaffold-web spider Eidmannella pallida (Araneae, Nesticidae) with a focus on new records from Italy. Zootaxa 5351: 221-264
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