Segestriidae  Simon, 1893 / Segestria  Latreille, 1804   9 species

Segestria bavarica C. L. Koch, 1843

Description
Male

Bulbus with indistinctly forked tip. Palp: the tip of the embolus is shorter than in S. senoculata, and bifurcated. Prosoma 3.5-4 mm long. Prosoma dark brown. Sternum dark brown, darker than coxa. Metatarsus I with a pair of lateral spines. Opisthosoma with grey pattern broken into single spots by bright median stripes.

Body length male: 7-8 mm
Female

Prosoma 3-5 mm long. Sternum dark brown, darker than coxa. Legs brownish, the posteriors with black annulations. Metatarsus I as in S. florentina. Opisthosoma grey brownish spotted with black, dorsally with a black pattern as in fig., ventrally with a median broad blackish band.

Body length female: 10-14 mm
Additional information

Juveniles of S. florentina look like adults of S. bavarica. In rock crevices, stone walls, pine forests, under bark, dry mixed forests, under stones, semi-dry grasslands, in houses.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe, Turkey, Caucasus
Phenology
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Distribution List
Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Austria   (Thaler & Knoflach, 2002b) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Denmark   (Scharff & Gudik-Sørensen, 2006) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025; Dentici & Amata, 2018) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Luxembourg   (Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Netherlands   (van Helsdingen, 2025a) ||| North Macedonia   (Deltshev et al., 2013) ||| Poland   (Szymański et al., 2024) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Grbić & Hänggi, 2023) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Ukraine   (Fedoriak et al., 2009) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
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