Cybaeidae  Banks, 1892 / Cybaeus  L. Koch, 1868   11 species

Cybaeus tetricus  (C. L. Koch, 1839)

Description
Male

Prosoma yellowish, vaguely spotted. Sternum yellowish. Legs yellow-brown, unicoloured. Opisthosoma light grey, dorsally with large, whitish spots.
Male palp with patellar apophysis, appressed to male palpal, distally broadened spoon-like.

Body length male: 5.0-6.0 mm
Female

Epigyne with heart-shaped groove, posterior margin tapering. 

Body length female: 7.0-8.5 mm
Additional information

under stones in damp mountainous woodland

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Slovakia: doubtful (Gajdoš et al., 1999), therefore not rated; Poland and Ukraine should be confirmed
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Europe
Phenology
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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.

Austria   (Thaler, 1997b) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania  Removed (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Serbia   (Deltshev et al., 2003b) ||| Slovakia  Removed (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Ukraine   (Hirna, 2017b) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Copley C R, Bennett R, Perlman S J (2009) Systematics of Nearctic Cybaeus (Araneae: Cybaeidae). Invertebrate Systematics 23: 367-401 pdf

Dahl M (1931) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VI: Familie Agelenidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 23: 1-136 pdf

Deltshev C D, Ćurčić B P M, Blagoev GA (2003b) The spiders of Serbia. Inst. Zoology, Fac. Biology, Belgrade & Inst. Zoology, Bulg. Acad. Sci., Sofia. 832 pp.

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

Hirna A (2017b) Specimens of spider fauna from Ukraine in the collection of the Museum of Natural History, Wroclaw University (according to the collection of Stanisław Pilawski and Kazimierz Petrusewicz). Zoologica Poloniae 60(2015): 15-33 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Loksa I (1969) Pokok I-Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133 pdf

Maurer R (1992) Zur Gattung Cybaeus im Alpenraum (Araneae: Agelenidae, Cybaeinae) - Beschreibung von C. montanus n. sp. und C. intermedius n. sp.. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 99: 147-162 pdf

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. 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

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Thaler K (1997b) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 3: "Lycosaeformia" (Agelenidae, Hahniidae, Argyronetidae, Pisauridae, Oxyopidae, Lycosidae) und Gnaphosidae (Arachnida: Araneida). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 75/76: 97-146 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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13-10-2023 Distribution update Detail