Oonopidae  Simon, 1890 / Orchestina  Simon, 1882   12 species

Orchestina simoni  Dalmas, 1916

Description
Male

Palp: bulb short and very widened, embolus cylindrical, straight, the style sticks out the embolus an half its length. Characters as in female.

Body length male: 1.15-1.30 mm
Female

Spermatheca simple, circular, contiguous to the epigastric furrow. Prosoma pale, sometimes with a thin borderline. Median eyes rectangular, eyes ringed with black. Labium longer than wide. Opisthosoma with a typical colouration, dorsally a large chevron.

Body length female: 1.40-1.45 mm
Additional information

Littoral, rocks with halophytes.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey
Phenology
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Figures
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.

France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Lissner, 2022a) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Portugal   (Lissner, 2022a) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
References

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

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

Brignoli P M (1974b) Ragni di Grecia VI. Specie nuove o interessanti delle isole Ionie e della Morea (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 81: 155-175 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

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

Lissner J (2022a) A note on Orchestina setosa and O. simoni males (Oonopidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 153: 2-4 pdf

Lissner J (2022b) Corrigendum to "A note on Orchestina setosa and O. simoni males (Oonopidae)". Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 154: 12-13 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

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
25-07-2022 Image insert
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15-03-2022 Distribution update Detail
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26-10-2015 Distribution update Detail
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