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Phyxelididae  Lehtinen, 1967 / Phyxelida  Simon, 1894   1 species

Phyxelida anatolica Griswold, 1990

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023133

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Description
Male

Colouration as in females.

Body length male: 5.5 mm
Female

Prosoma, legs and sternum pale yellow-brown. Chelicerae dark brown. Opisthosoma greyish.

Body length female: 8.0 mm
Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: The record from Greece (Naumova et al., 2016a) is unclear, because the locality number belongs to Bulgaria, but on the map it is on a Greek island.
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Cyprus, Turkey, Israel
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998a)

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male Pedipalp, mesal view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998a)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998a)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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male Embolus and conductor
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998a)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998a)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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male Metatarsus I
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998a)

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male Metatarsus I
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998a)

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male Metatarsus I
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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female Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998a)

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female Epigyne/vulva, dorsal view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998a)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

Distribution List
Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece  Removed (Naumova et al., 2016a; Chatzaki, unpupl.; Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

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

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

Chatzaki M (unpupl.) .

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

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 pdf

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 pdf

Thaler K, Knoflach B (1998a) Phyxelida anatolica Griswold, new to Cyprus (Arachnida Araneae: Amaurobiidae, Phyxelidinae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 36-40 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
09-12-2022 Distribution update Detail
08-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
24-01-2020 Image insert
05-10-2015 Distribution update Detail