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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Gnaphosa  Latreille, 1804   69 species

Gnaphosa alacris  Simon, 1878

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027189

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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 2024): Morocco, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini 2000)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Di Franco 1992)

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male Cymbium and tibia, dorsal view
(Di Franco 1992)

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female Epigyne
(Pesarini 2000)

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female Epigyne
(Di Franco 1992)

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female Epigyne
(Gaymard & Lecigne 2018)

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female Epigyne
(Gaymard & Lecigne 2018)

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female Epigyne
(Gaymard & Lecigne 2018)

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female Epigyne
(Taberlet unpubl.)

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female Vulva
(Di Franco 1992)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

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female Vulva, posterior view
(Taberlet 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.

Andorra   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| 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 pdf

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

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 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 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 (2000) Contributo alla conoscenza della fauna araneologica italiana (Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 78: 379-393 pdf

Taberlet J-P (unpubl.)

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 pdf

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