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Eresidae  C. L. Koch, 1845 / Eresus  Walckenaer, 1805   19 species

Eresus rotundiceps  Simon, 1873

Description
Male

Palp as in E. kollari. Prosoma black, covered with black hairs, and with sparse white hairs, the sides of the thoracic part with a few red hairs. Cephalic part very raised, a little wider than long, regularly convex. Prosoma 5 mm long. Sternum black. AME about one diameter apart, PME at least twice as large as AME, and a little more than one diameter apart. Chelicerae black. Legs strong and black, leg I and II with white annulations, leg III and IV with red hairs on femur and patella, and a longitudinal line of red hairs on tibia, tibia I same length as patella I. Opisthosoma dorsally orange-red, black on the posterior side, and with 2 pairs of black blotches, the anterior pair is smaller, opisthosoma ventrally black, with a few red hairs on the sides.

Female

Female unknown.

Additional information

No illustrations provided by the author.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Ukraine, Turkmenistan
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"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.

Ukraine   (Simon, 1873b) |||
References

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

Simon E (1873b) Etudes arachnologiques. 2e Mémoire. III. Note sur les espèces européennes de la famille des Eresidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 3: 335-358 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
16-03-2022 Distribution update Detail
16-03-2022 Image insert