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Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Rhode  Simon, 1882   9 species

Rhode biscutata  Simon, 1893

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004783

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Description
Male

Prosoma with protruding eye group. Prosoma 1.9-2.4 mm long. Opisthosoma with a dorsal and a ventral scutum.

Body length male: 4.1-4.6 mm
Female

Prosoma red-brown, 2.1-2.6 mm long. Sternum yellowish brown. Eyes well developed. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth, retromargin with one tooth. Legs greenish yellow. Opisthosoma with a reduced ventral scutum, dorsal scutum absent.

Body length female: 4.3-5.1 mm
Additional information

Under rocks in grassland and under shrubs.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Algeria, Tunisia, Italy
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1990c)

species

male Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1979d)

species

male Pedipalp
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978a)

species

male Pedipalp, lateral view
(Pesarini 1984)

species

male Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, lateral view
(Beladjal et al. 1996)

species

male Bulbus
(Thaler 1990c)

species

male Tip of bulbus
(Thaler 1990c)

species

male Bulbus
(Brignoli 1979d)

species

male Tip of bulbus
(Brignoli 1979d)

species

male Tip of bulbus, apical view
(Beladjal et al. 1996)

species

male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Thaler 1990c)

species

male Prosoma, lateral view
(Thaler 1990c)

species

male Pedicel, dorsal view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978a)

species

male Eyes, antero-dorsal view
(Pesarini 1984)

species

male Chelicera, lateral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978a)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Brignoli 1979d)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978a)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Beladjal et al. 1996)

species

Chelicerae, ventral view
(Thaler 1990c)

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   (Beladjal et al., 1996; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Beladjal et al., 1996) |||
References

Beladjal L, Bosmans R, Maelfait J-P (1996) Le genre Rhode Simon dans le Maghreb (Araneae, Dysderidae). Revue Arachnologique 11: 65-75 pdf

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

Brignoli P M (1979d) Ragni d'Italia XXIX. Dysderidae nuovi o interessanti (Araneae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 111: 17-26 pdf

Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1978a) Les araignées du genre Rhode de Yougoslavie (Araneae, Dysderidae). International Journal of Speleology 9: 251-266 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 (1984) Rhode testudinea n. sp. delle Alpi Cozie, e considerazioni sulla sistematica della tribu' Rhodini. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 125: 81-86 pdf

Thaler K (1990c) Das Männchen von Rhode aspinifera (Nikolic) (Arachnida: Araneae, Dysderidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 63: 147-152 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
17-02-2022 Image insert
16-02-2022 Distribution insert Detail
08-07-2014 Image insert
01-10-2013 Image insert
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