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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Asagena  Sundevall, 1833   4 species

Asagena italica  (Knoflach, 1996)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008063

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Description

Male palp with blunt, inconspicuous accompanying process of embolus. Epigyne hardly furrowed. Prosoma dark brown. Sternum black-brown. Chelicerae black-brown. Legs I-II dark brown, III-IV brown, patella, tibia, metatarsus and tarsus yellow-brown. Opisthosoma black, dorsally with white or yellow pattern.

Body length male: 4.4-5.2 mm
Body length female: 4.2-5.0 mm
Additional information

in olive groves, extensively farmed cultivated land or wasteland

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): France (incl. Corsica), Switzerland, Italy, Algeria
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Knoflach 1996b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Knoflach 1996b)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Knoflach 1996b)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Knoflach 1996b)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Iorio 2023)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Iorio 2023)

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male Bulbus, prolateral view
(Knoflach 1996b)

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male Embolar base, retrolateral view
(Knoflach 1996b)

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female Epigyne
(Knoflach 1996b)

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female Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Knoflach 1996b)

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female Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Knoflach 1996b)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Knoflach 1996b)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Knoflach 1996b)

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female Vulva, variation, dorsal view
(Knoflach 1996b)

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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Iorio, 2023) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi & Stäubli, 2012) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76 pdf

Iorio E (2023) Les peuplements d’araignées (Araneae) de la réserve naturelle régionale des Isles du Drac (Isère, France), avec focus sur deux zones humides. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 10: 4-40 pdf

Knoflach B (1996b) Die Arten der Steatoda phalerata-Gruppe in Europa (Arachnida: Araneae, Theridiidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 69: 377-404 pdf

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

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
08-05-2023 Image insert
08-05-2023 Distribution update Detail
25-02-2022 Distribution insert Detail
17-02-2014 Image insert