Histopona palaeolithica (Brignoli, 1971)
Description
Female
Prosoma yellowish orange, slightly darker in cephalic region. Sternum yellowish. Opisthosoma yellowish-white.
Body length female: 4.85 mmAdditional information
Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Mammola et al. 2019a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Mammola et al. 2019a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Mammola et al. 2019a)
Chelicerae and eyes, frontal view
(Mammola et al. 2019a)
Epigyne
(Brignoli 1971g)
Epigyne
(Mammola et al. 2019a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Brignoli 1977b)
Vulva, ventral view
(Brignoli 1977b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Brignoli 1971g)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1983)
Vulva, ventral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1983)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Mammola et al. 2019a)
Vulva, ventral view
(Mammola et al. 2019a)
Distribution List
References
Brignoli P M (1971g) Contributo alla conoscenza degli Agelenidae Italiani (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 8: 57-142 
Brignoli P M (1977b) Ragni d'Italia XXVII. Nuovi dati su Agelenidae, Argyronetidae, Hahniidae, Oxyopidae e Pisauridae cavernicoli ed epigei (Araneae). Quaderni del Museo di Speleologia "V. Rivera" 4: 3-117
Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1983) The genus Histopona Thorell (Araneae, Agelenidae) with description of two new cave-dwelling species. Mémoires de Biospéologie 10: 325-337
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
Mammola S, Milano F, Isaia M (2019a) Taxonomy, ecology and conservation of the cave-dwelling spider Histopona palaeolithica, with the description of H. petrovi sp. nov. (Araneae: Agelenidae). Journal of Arachnology 47: 317-325
Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, 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
Naumova M V, Lazarov S, Petrov B, Deltshev C (2016a) New faunistic data on the cave-dwelling spiders in the Balkan Peninsula (Araneae). Ecologia Montenegrina 7: 425-438
Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2