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Hahniidae  Bertkau, 1878 / Iberina  Simon, 1881   6 species

Iberina microphthalma  (Snazell & Duffey, 1980)

Description
Male

Prosoma pale, yellowish white, without pattern, ocular area slightly darker. Eyes completely reduced. Sternum light, covered with very long hairs. Legs pale, with conspicuously long spines and hairs. Opisthosoma pale, covered with long hairs

Body length male: 1.2 mm
Female

Prosoma chelicerae, sternum and legs pale yellow, eyes distinctly to totally reduced. Opisthosoma pale yellow-grey to white, covered with black hairs.

Body length female: 1.1-1.4 mm
Additional information

In damp locations in moss and leaf litter

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Britain, Switzerland, Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania
Phenology
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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.

Czechia   (Růžička & Dolansky, 2014; Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Hungary   (Mezőfi & Markó, 2018) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Sarbu, 1996) ||| Slovakia   (Růžička, 2021) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi & Stäubli, 2012) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Georgescu M, Sarbu S (1992) Description d'un nouveau taxon: Iberina caeca de la grotte "Pestera de la Movile" (Araneae-Hahniidae). Mémoires de Biospéologie 19: 139-141 pdf

Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76 pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Ledoux, J-C (2014) Les Hahniidae de la faune française (Araneae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 1: 29-40 pdf

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 pdf

Mezőfi L, Markó V (2018) Some rare and remarkable spider species from Hungary (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 1-9 pdf

Růžička V (2021) Pavouci nehlubokých podzemních biotopů Slovenska [Spiders from shallow subterranean habitats in Slovakia]. Pavouk 50: 9-10 pdf

Růžička V (2022) A review of the spider genus Iberina (Araneae, Hahniidae). Zootaxa 5133: 555-566 pdf

Růžička V, Dolansky J (2014) Hahnia microphthalma. Pavouk 36: 5-9 pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Snazell R, Duffey E (1980) A new species of Hahnia (Araneae, Hahniidae) from Britain. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5: 50-52 pdf

Szita É, Samu F, Bleicher K, Botos E (1998) Data to the spider fauna (Araneae) of Körös-Maros National Park (Hungary). Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica 33: 341-348 pdf

Weiss I, Sarbu S M (1996) Das unbekannte Männchen der Höhlenspinne Hahnia caeca n. comb., mit Hinweisen zur Funktion der Tibial-Apophyse des männlichen Pedipalpus (Arachnida, Araneae, Hahniidae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 36: 163-171 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

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