Zangherella relicta (Kratochvíl, 1935)
Description
Male
Characters as in female, but opisthosoma with a dorsal and a ventral scutum.
Body length male: 1.2 mmFemale
Very similar to Z. apuliae. Prosoma reddish brown. Eyes: PME less than one diameter apart, and 2 diameters from PLE, lateral eyes contiguous. Clypeus as high as the length of chelicerae. Tarsus I with 4 short strong prolateral spines. Opisthosoma whitish, without scutum.
Body length female: 1.4 mmAdditional information
In caves. Strongly modified anapid orb web, similar to Comaroma simoni.
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)
Leg I, prolateral view
(Wunderlich 1980d)
Epigyne
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)
Epigyne
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Deltshev et al. 2011a)
Distribution List
References
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) 
Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1974) The cave spider fauna of Montenegro (Araneae). Glasnik Republickog Zavoda za Zastitu Prirode i Prirodnjackog Muzeja Titogradu 6: 9-33
Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M, Stoev P (2011a) A survey of spiders (Araneae) inhabiting the euedaphic soil stratum and the superficial underground compartment in Bulgaria. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 40: 33-46
Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, 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
Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Wunderlich J (1980d) Über europäische Symphytognathidae (Arach.: Araneae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 23: 259-273