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Amaurobiidae  Thorell, 1869 / Amaurobius  C. L. Koch, 1837   40 species

Amaurobius crassipalpis Canestrini & Pavesi, 1870

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022596

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Description
Dorsal tibial apophysis long and bent. Epigyne with receptacula seminis widely segregated from each other. Prosoma brown. Opisthosoma dorsally blackish, anteriorly with whitish spot, ventrally brown, laterally with 2 white lines.
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Germany, Switzerland, Italy
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Pesarini 1991)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Dresco 1977)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Pesarini 1991)

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female Vulva
(Pesarini 1991)

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Eyes, frontal view
(Dresco 1977)

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.

Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Dresco E (1977) Recherches sur les Amaurobius (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) et description de A. tessinensis sp. nov. du Tessin (Suisse). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 84: 873-882 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Pesarini C (1991) The Amaurobiidae of Northern Italy (Araneae). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 131: 261-276 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
08-06-2025 Distribution update Detail