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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Cesonia  Simon, 1893   1 species

Cesonia aspida  Chatzaki, 2002

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038045

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Description

Palp male: with spines on femur and patella. Tibial apophysis slender, claw-like. Conductor with membranous lobe and sclerotised ventral tip. Embolus small and tapering, additionally with thin lateral branch with bipartite end. Epigyne weakly sclerotised laterally, opened toward epigastric furrow. Vulva with bilobed spermatheca. Prosoma with variable colour, from dark brown to grey-black, with 3 bright and 2 dark longitudinal stripes, distance between posterior median and lateral eyes smaller than distance between posterior median eyes. Chelicerae with small fangs and 3 teeth on posterior cheliceral furrow margin. Tarsus I-II with scopula. Opisthosoma variably coloured (cf. prosoma), with 2 dorsal, bright bands and a dark median and 2 lateral bands, males with anterior scutum.

Body length male: 4.3-5.6 mm
Body length female: 7.8 mm
Additional information

In sandy habitats and in Phrygana near the coast up to 1400 m

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece (Crete), Turkey
late spring to autumn
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Chatzaki et al. 2002b)

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male Pedipalp
(Chatzaki et al. 2002b)

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male Embolic division
(Chatzaki et al. 2002b)

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female Epigyne
(Chatzaki et al. 2002b)

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female Vulva
(Chatzaki et al. 2002b)

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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Seyyar et al., 2007; Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Chatzaki M, Thaler K, Mylonas M (2002b) Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae, Araneae) of Crete and adjacent areas of Greece. Taxonomy and distribution. II. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 109: 603-633 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Seyyar O, Ayyildiz N, Topçu A (2007) Notes on Cesonia, a newly recorded genus for the Asian spider fauna (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 34: 25-26 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
18-11-2022 Distribution update Detail
04-07-2017 Distribution update Detail