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
Figures
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(WSC 2026)
Distribution List
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 
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
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 16-03-2022 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 16-03-2022 | Image insert |