Pholcidae  C. L. Koch, 1850 / Hoplopholcus  Kulczyński, 1908   16 species

Hoplopholcus minotaurinus  Senglet, 1971

Description
Male

Prosoma 1.7 mm long. Colouration as in female, but legs I and II darker. Femur I with a ventral series of 25 to 28 spines alternatively long and short.

Female

Prosoma yellowish, cephalic part brownish, 2.1 mm long. Sternum light brownish. Eyes: AME much more than one diameter from ALE. Legs brownish, metatarsus and tarsus darker. Opisthosoma very high, whitish to grey, suffused with black above spinners, ventrally with a faint median streak.

Additional information

In caves.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: restricted to Crete (Huber 2020)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece (Crete)
Figures
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.

Greece / Crete   (Huber, 2020) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1976b) Ragni di Grecia IX. Specie nuove o interessanti delle famiglie Leptonetidae, Dysderidae, Pholcidae ed Agelenidae (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 83: 539-578 pdf

Huber B (2020) Revision of the spider genus Hoplopholcus Kulczyński (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4726: 1-94 pdf

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 pdf

Senglet A (1971) Note sur les Pholcidae (Arachn.) de Grèce. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 44: 345-359 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
21-12-2020 Distribution update Detail
24-01-2020 Image insert
20-01-2020 Distribution update Detail
10-12-2013 Image insert