Mastigusa lucifuga (Simon, 1898)
Description
Male
Male unknown.
Female
Epigyne large, reddish, flat and haired. Prosoma, chelicerae and sternum reddish brown, anterior eyes surrounded with black. Opisthosoma pale reddish brown. Spinnerets brown.
Body length female: 2.5 mmAdditional information
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Figures
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Castellucci et al. 2024)
Eyes, dorsal view
(Simon 1898a)
Eyes, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1986)
Distribution List
References
Castellucci F, Luchetti A, Scharff N (2024) Enigmatic and extravagant genitalia in the spider genus Mastigusa (Araneae, Cybaeidae) – a taxonomical revision. Invertebrate Systematics 38(IS23047): 1-27 
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
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
Simon E (1898a) Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 2: 193-380
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Wunderlich J (1986) Spinnenfauna gestern und heute: Fossile Spinnen in Bernstein und ihre heute lebenden Verwandten. Quelle & Meyer, Wiesbaden. 283 pp.
Updates
| 24-06-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 11-04-2024 | Image insert | |
| 03-09-2015 | Image insert | |
| 29-01-2015 | Image insert |