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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Gnaphosa  Latreille, 1804   69 species

Gnaphosa occidentalis  Simon, 1878

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027263

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Description
Male

Very similar to G. lugubris, but palpal tibial apophysis with bifid tip.

Body length male: 9-11 mm
Female

Very similar to G. lugubris, but epigyne broader relative to the central tongue. Prosoma length: 5.0 mm, prosoma width: 3.5 mm.

Body length female: 10-12.8 mm
Additional information

Under stones and detritus in dry habitats.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Western Europe
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Locket et al. 1974)

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male Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Lecigne 2018a)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Lecigne 2018a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2018a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne 2018a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne 2018a)

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male Tip of pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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male Bulbal apophysis, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2018a)

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male Palpal tibia
(Locket et al. 1974)

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male Palpal tibia, dorso-retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2018a)

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male Palpal tibia, dorso-retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2018a)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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female Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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female Epigyne
(Lecigne 2018a)

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female Epigyne
(Lecigne 2018a)

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female Epigyne
(Iorio unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Lecigne 2018a)

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female Vulva
(Lecigne 2018a)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Lecigne 2018a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Breitling 2020)

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.

France   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| North Macedonia   (Blagoev, 2002) ||| Serbia   (no references) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Blagoev G (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34 pdf

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

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

Iorio E (unpubl.) .

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

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Lecigne S (2018a) Gnaphosa ogeri n.sp., a new species from France (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 33: 45-58 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1951) British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp. pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F, Merrett P (1974) British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp. 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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail