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Oonopidae  Simon, 1890 / Orchestina  Simon, 1882   12 species

Orchestina pavesii  (Simon, 1873)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005121

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Description
Male

Palp: tibia strongly bulbous, bulb small, spherical, embolus cylindrical, sinuous. Body pale coloured. Femur IV strikingly broadened. Other characters as in female.

Body length male: 0.96-1 mm
Female

Spermatheca: 2 small circles, situated at the ends of a transverse band. Eyes ringed with black, median eyes oval or almost square. Labium almost as wide as long. Opisthosoma whitish.

Body length female: 1.06-1.18 mm
Additional information

Under stones in dry meaows, among litter.

Mediterranean species, a single northern location in a building in Nitra, Slovakia.

 

Some of the figures are misidentified (Marusik, in litt.)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Canary Is., Southwest Europe to Greece, Bulgaria, Algeria, Egypt, Yemen
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Pekár & Gajdoš 2001)

species

male Pedipalp
(Melic 1994)

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male Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1967a)

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male Pedipalp, lateral view
(Saaristo & Marusik 2004b)

species

male Embolus
(Pekár & Gajdoš 2001)

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male Habitus
(Melic 1994)

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female Epigyne
(Melic 1994)

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female Epigyne
(Saaristo & Marusik 2004b)

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Eyes, dorsal view
(Pekár & Gajdoš 2001)

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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Egypt   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

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

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

Brignoli P M (1967a) Su alcuni Oonopidae delle isole Ponziane. Fragmenta Entomologica 4: 141-148 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Melic A (1994) Arañas nuevas o de interés de la fauna ibérica (Arachnida: Araneae): Notas aracnológicas aragonesas, 2. Zapateri, Revista Aragonesa de Entomología 4: 109-118 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

Pekár S, Gajdoš P (2001) Orchestina pavesii (Simon, 1873), an oonopid spider new to Slovakia (Araneae Oonopidae. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 21: 50-53 pdf

Russell-Smith A, Allison R, Askins M, Blumsom W, Snazell R, Spilling C (2011) A provisional checklist and gazetteer of the spiders of Chios, Greece (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 133-167 pdf

Saaristo M I, Marusik Y M (2004b) Ferchestina, a new genus of oonopid spiders from Russian Far East (Aranei, Oonopidae). Arthropoda Selecta 13: 51-65 pdf

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
03-04-2024 Image insert
01-04-2013 Image insert