Orchestina pavesii (Simon, 1873)
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: 0.9-1.0 mmFemale
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: 1.0-1.2 mmAdditional 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
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Pekár & Gajdoš 2001)
Pedipalp
(Melic 1994)
Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1967a)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Saaristo & Marusik 2004b)
Embolus
(Pekár & Gajdoš 2001)
Habitus
(Melic 1994)
Epigyne
(Melic 1994)
Epigyne
(Saaristo & Marusik 2004b)
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.
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 
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Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Brignoli P M (1967a) Su alcuni Oonopidae delle isole Ponziane. Fragmenta Entomologica 4: 141-148
El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183
Gajdoš P, Svatoň J (2007) Supplementary records to catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Entomofauna Carpathica 19: 21-26
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
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
Pekár S, Gajdoš P (2001) Orchestina pavesii (Simon, 1873), an oonopid spider new to Slovakia (Araneae Oonopidae. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 21: 50-53
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
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
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2