Psammitis ninnii (Thorell, 1872)
Description
Male palp with flat tegulum with small, blunt ridge. lateral tibial apophysis with almost parallel sides. Embolus with rough surface structure and widened to a small lancet-shaped leaflet. Epigyne bright, broad-oval with lateral slit-shaped opening, 1-2 short transverse folds. Vulva consisting of 2 sac-like, compact structures. Prosoma brown to dark brown, high-contrastingly patterned, with bright, broad, indented median band, variable. Sides with blackish spots. Sternum brown to sandy brown or beige. Female: cream to white, partly darker on margin. Chelicerae longish, brown to light brown, patterned beige, slightly spined frontally and provided with a longer spine (strongly spined in female). Legs unicoloured and inconspicuous, dorsally slightly darker. Female: with distinct white longitudinal stripes. Male: without longitudinal stripes. Opisthosoma with broad, white or cream margin, otherwise dark brown or black-brown with lancet- or oak leaf-shaped, cream, beige or brown folium, 5 sigilla.
Body length male: 4.2-5.2 mmBody length female: 5.5-7.5 mm
Additional information
in dry meadows, forest steppes and rocky heathland of the mountains, up to 1800 m
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Crome 1965)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini 2000)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1995)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler 1981c)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azheganova 1968)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Crome 1965)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Thaler 1981c)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Embolus, ventral view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Embolus, dorsal view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Pesarini 2000)
Epigyne
(Azheganova 1968)
Epigyne
(Jantscher 2001a)
Epigyne
(Jantscher 2001a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Jantscher 2001a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Jantscher 2001a)
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
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