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Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Benoitia  Lehtinen, 1967   3 species

Benoitia lepida  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)

Description
Male

Pedipalp: Patella with broad apophysis. Winding conductor recurves on itself.

Body length male: 4.1-7.8 mm
Female

Epigynal groove divided by narroe median septum.

Body length female: 5.0-9.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, North Africa, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Yemen, Saudi-Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran
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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.

Algeria   (Levy, 1996; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (Levy, 1996; El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Libya   (Levy, 1996; Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Al-Khazali A M (2018) The first record of family Agelenidae from Iraq (Arachnida: Araneae). Serket 16: 60-65 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

Blauwe R de (1980b) Revision de la famille des Agelenidae (Araneae) habitant la région Mediterranéenne (3e partie). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 52(11): 1-28 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

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

Denis J (1966a) Les araignées du Fezzân. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle d'Afrique du Nord 55: 103-144 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 pdf

Levy G (1996) The agelenid funnel-weaver family and the spider genus Cedicus in Israel (Araneae, Agelenidae and Cybaeidae). Zoologica Scripta 25: 85-122 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
18-12-2024 Distribution update Detail
10-12-2024 Distribution update Detail
26-10-2023 Image insert
11-04-2022 Distribution update Detail
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26-03-2013 Datasheet update Detail
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