Thyene phragmitigrada Metzner, 1999
Description
Male
Body elongated. Prosoma dorsally brown, sloping sides dark brown with black margin with white hairs. Opisthosoma dorsally black-brown with orange-brown punctuation and long white and black hairs. Anteriorly with T-shaped band of white scales, which is elongated posteriorly by metallic shiny scales. Palp: Tibial apophysis longer and curved, embolus distally buckled, tip of tegular apophysis at 8 o'clock position.
Body length male: 5.0-6.3 mmFemale
Body elongated. Prosoma dorsally light yellow-orange, posterior sloping side with two posteriorly diverging black longitudinal stripes. Opisthosoma beige, dorsally with black pattern and on each side with three diagonal bands of white hairs. Epigyne: wide, slightly heart-shaped depression and curved sperm ducts which end laterally in receptacles that look as black spots, posterior rim of epigyneal plate only weakly indented.
Body length female: 6.7-8.9 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Barrientos & Febrer 2017)
Eyes, frontal view
(Barrientos & Febrer 2017)
Habitus
(Metzner 1999)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Barrientos & Febrer 2017)
Epigyne
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne
(Barrientos & Febrer 2017)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Metzner 1999)
Distribution List
References
Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279
Sánchez I, Pérez A, Amarillo J M, Pedreño M (2019) Ampliación del catálogo de arañas de la provincia de Cádiz, con una nueva especie para la Península Ibérica (España). Revista de la Sociedad Gaditana de Historia Natural 13: 33-42
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2