araneae - Gnaphosa alacris

Description

Male

Prosoma reddish brown, anterior to fovea with 2 darker spots. Prosoma length: 1.7-3.2 mm. Prosoma length: 1.7-3.2 mm. Chelicerae bronze-coloured. Sternum dark orange, margin with reddish line. Legs orange. Opisthosoma covered with greyish hairs and black bristles, venter with 2 longitudinal stripes, running from epigastric furrow to the spinnerets.

Body length male: 3.2-6.5 mm

Female

Prosoma length: 2.0-2.7 mm.Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 4.8-9.1 mm

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2021): Morocco, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia

Figures

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini 2000)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Di Franco 1992)

Cymbium and tibia, dorsal view
(Di Franco 1992)

Epigyne
(Pesarini 2000)

Epigyne
(Di Franco 1992)

Epigyne
(Gaymard & Lecigne 2018)

Epigyne
(Taberlet unpubl.)

Vulva
(Di Franco 1992)

Vulva, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

Vulva, dorsal view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

Vulva, posterior view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

Distribution List

Andorra (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Croatia (no references) ||| France (no references) ||| France / Corsica (no references) ||| Italy (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Morocco (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Portugal (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain (Branco et al., 2019) |||

References

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

Di Franco F (1992) Gnaphosidae di Castelporziano e del Parco Nazionale del Circeo (Arachnida, Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 23: 213-233

Gaymard M, Lecigne S (2018) Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) du Gard et en particulier du massif des Gorges du Gardon (Occitanie, France). Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 1: 1-39

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

Pesarini C (2000) Contributo alla conoscenza della fauna araneologica italiana (Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 78: 379-393

Taberlet J-P (unpubl.)

WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.09.2021) doi: 10.24436/2

12-08-2021	Gallery image insert
12-08-2021	Image insert
17-12-2018	Image insert
25-06-2013	Distribution update	Detail

Gnaphosa alacris Simon, 1878