Dysdera adriatica Kulczyński, 1897
Description
Male
Prosoma 2.8 mm long.
Female
Prosoma dark brown, grainy, 3 mm long. Eyes: anteriors one diameter apart, PME smaller than PLE. Chelicerae with 3 teeth. Legs: posterior tibia with 6 to 9 spines, posterior metatarsus with 7 to 12 spines.
Additional information
In deciduous forests. In litter. Altitude up to 1100 m.
Distribution
Figures
Tip of bulbus, frontal view
(Thaler & Knoflach 2002b)
Bulbus
(Thaler & Knoflach 2002b)
Bulbus, dorsal view
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)
Tip of embolus
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)
Embolic division
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Thaler & Knoflach 2002b)
Vulva
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)
Vulva, anterior part, ventral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)
Vulva, anterior part, ventral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988)
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
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) 
Ćurčić B P M, Deltshev C C, Blagoev G A, Ćurčić S B, Tomić V T (2003) On the diversity of some spiders (Aranea: Arachnida) from Serbia. Archives of Biological Sciences Belgrade 55: 23-31
Deeleman-Reinhold C L, Deeleman P R (1988) Revision des Dysderinae (Araneae, Dysderidae), les espèces mediterranéennes occidentales exceptées. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 131: 141-269
Geci D, Ibrahimi H, Strohmeier T, Koblmüller S, Bilalli A, Zamani A (2025c) First DNA barcoding of Dysderidae (Araneae) from Kosovo, with new records and the description of a new species of Harpactea Bristowe, 1939. Zootaxa 5653: 486-500
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
Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522
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].
Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89
Thaler K, Knoflach B (2002b) Zur Faunistik der Spinnen (Araneae) von Österreich: Atypidae, Haplogynae, Eresidae, Zodariidae, Mimetidae. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 34: 413-444
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2