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Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Rhode  Simon, 1882   9 species

Rhode aspinifera  (Nikolic, 1963)

Description
Male

Prosoma red-brown, 1.3-1.4 mm long. Both sexes eyeless. Sternum provided with small, robust tubercles. Chelicerae provided with small, robust tubercles. Femur provided with small, robust tubercles.

Body length male: 3.3 mm
Female

Prosoma 1.6 mm long. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth, retromargin with one tooth. Legs covered with hairs, particularly on the ventral side of metatarsus.

Body length female: 3.8 mm
Additional information

Found in caves, deeper ground and under stones.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Frequency: Very rarely found

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy, Slovenia, Croatia
Phenology
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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.

Croatia   (Mammola et al., 2018b) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) |||
References

Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1978a) Les araignées du genre Rhode de Yougoslavie (Araneae, Dysderidae). International Journal of Speleology 9: 251-266 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522 pdf

Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M (2018b) A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56: 301-316 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Thaler K (1990c) Das Männchen von Rhode aspinifera (Nikolic) (Arachnida: Araneae, Dysderidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 63: 147-152 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
07-01-2020 Distribution update Detail
01-10-2013 Image insert
25-06-2013 Distribution update Detail