araneae - Barusia laconica

Description

Male

Palp: femur with 3 spines, patella with one spine, tibia with 6 spines, tarsus with numerous spines. Prosoma whitish. Sternum whitish. Eyes ringed with black, posteriors about one diameter from ALE. Chelicerae: promargin with 8 teeth, retromargin with 4 teeth. Legs pale yellowish, without spines. Opisthosoma greyish, slightly darker on the side.

Body length male: 1.1 mm

Female

Body length female: 1.1 mm

Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece

Phenology



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Figures

Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Brignoli 1979b)

Bulbus, prolateral view
(Brignoli 1979b)

Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1974c)

Vulva
(Brignoli 1974c)

Gnathocoxa
(Brignoli 1974c)

Cheliceral teeth
(Brignoli 1974c)

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.

References

Brignoli P M (1974c) Araignées de Grèce VIII. Quelques Leptonetidae de la Laconie et de l'île de Crète (Arachnida, Araneae). Annales de Spéléologie 29: 63-70

Brignoli P M (1979b) Ragni di Grecia XI. Specie nuove o interessanti, cavernicole ed epigee. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 86: 181-202

Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, 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

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

Barusia laconica (Brignoli, 1974)