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Trachelidae  Simon, 1897 / Paratrachelas  Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2009   4 species

Paratrachelas ibericus  (Bosselaers, Urones, Barrientos & Alberdi, 2009)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042273

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Description
Male

Prosoma yellow-brown, with small pits. Prosoma length: 1.74 mm. Chelicerae yellow-brown, rugose, pro- and retromargin each with 3 teeth. Sternum yellow-brown, margin darker, almost smooth. Legs I-II brown, legs III-IV yellow-brown. Opisthosoma grey, without pattern, dorsum with yellow-brown scutum covering almost the entire opisthosoma.

Body length male: 2.65-3.47 mm
Female

Prosoma, chelicerae and sternum as in males. Prosoma length: 1.58 mm. Legs I-II orange-yellow, legs III-IV yellow. Opisthosoma grey, dorsum with dark grey dagger-shaped mark flanked by 2 large light spots, followed by 2 light median patches and some light chevrons in posterior part, dorsal scutum absent.

Body length female: 3.81-4.05 mm
Additional information

In litter layer of holm oak forests, stone pine forests and chestnut forests, from 180-900 m a.s.l.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Portugal, Spain, France, Algeria
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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male Eyes, frontal view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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male Chelicera, lateral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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male Leg I
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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male Habitus
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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female Habitus
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (no references) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Bosselaers J, Urones C, Barrientos J A, Alberdi J M (2009) On the Mediterranean species of Trachelinae (Araneae, Corinnidae) with a revision of Trachelas L. Koch 1872 on the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Arachnology 37: 15-38 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 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