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Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Dasumia  Thorell, 1875   18 species

Dasumia kusceri (Kratochvíl, 1935)

Description

Prosoma dark reddish brown. Sternum reddish. Chelicerae dark reddish brown, each margin with 2 teeth. Legs: anteriors reddish, posteriors light reddish, femur I and II with 2 to 4 spines, femur III and IV with numerous spines, patella I, II and IV spineless, patella III with one apical spine, tibia I and II spineless, tibia III and IV with numerous spines, tarsus with 3 claws, without claw tuft.

Body length male: 6.8-7.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Kosovo, North Macedonia, Bulgaria
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Distribution List
Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Greece  Removed (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Kosovo   (Geci et al., 2025c) ||| North Macedonia   (Geci & Naumova, 2021b; Komnenov, 2014) ||| Serbia   (Deltshev et al., 2003b) |||
References

Alicata P (1966b) Il genere Dasumia Thorell (Araneae, Dysderidae), sua nuova definizione e revisione delle specie italiane. Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 14: 465-484 pdf

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Deltshev C D, Ćurčić B P M, Blagoev GA (2003b) The spiders of Serbia. Inst. Zoology, Fac. Biology, Belgrade & Inst. Zoology, Bulg. Acad. Sci., Sofia. 832 pp.

Geci D, Ibrahimi H, Strohmeier T, Koblmüller S, Bilalli A, Zamani A (2025c) First DNA barcoding of Dysderidae (Araneae) from Kosovo, with new records and the description of a new species of Harpactea Bristowe, 1939. Zootaxa 5653: 486-500 pdf

Geci D, Naumova M (2021b) A preliminary checklist of the spiders of Kosovo (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologia Balkanica, Special Edition 4: 11-28 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Naumova M, Indzhov S, Dimitrov D, Deltshev C (2019b) Redescription of Dasumia kusceri (Kratochvíl, 1935), with the first description of the female and notes on the genus Dasumia Thorell, 1875 (Araneae: Dysderidae) in Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 71: 467-472 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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