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Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Eidmannella  Roewer, 1935   1 species

Eidmannella pallida  (Emerton, 1875)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006583

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Description

Prosoma yellowish-brown, bright, with unpaired bristle posterior to anterior median eyes. Sternum light yellow. Legs light yellow, uniformly provided with long bristles. Tarsus IV with serrated bristles. Opisthosoma light grey, covered with long, fine hairs.

Body length male: 2.2-3.5 mm
Body length female: 3.5-4.0 mm
Additional information

This species of American origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe and did establish (Nardi et al., 2023).

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): North America, Caribbean, Brazil, Argentina. Introduced to Pacific Is., Galapagos Is., Macaronesia, Britain, Spain, France, Italy, Israel, Japan
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Locket et al. 1974)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Nardi et al. 2023)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Nardi et al. 2023)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Nardi et al. 2023)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Nardi et al. 2023)

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female Epigyne
(Locket et al. 1974)

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female Epigyne
(Nardi et al. 2023)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Nardi et al. 2023)

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Eyes, dorsal view
(Locket et al. 1974)

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   (Nardi et al., 2023) ||| Italy   (Nardi et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| United Kingdom   (Locket et al., 1974) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F, Merrett P (1974) British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp. 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

Nardi D, Lami F, Pantini P, Marini L (2019) Using species-habitat networks to inform agricultural landscape management for spiders. Biological Conservation 239(108275): 1-8 pdf

Nardi D, Pantini P, Rizzo P, Trespidi G, Turetta A, Barbieri G, Ballarin F (2023) A comprehensive update on the morphology and distribution of the invasive scaffold-web spider Eidmannella pallida (Araneae, Nesticidae) with a focus on new records from Italy. Zootaxa 5351: 221-264 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
26-09-2023 Image insert
26-09-2023 Distribution update Detail
26-09-2023 Distribution insert Detail
01-05-2020 Distribution update Detail
01-05-2020 Datasheet update Detail
01-05-2020 Distribution insert Detail