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Cheiracanthiidae  Wagner, 1887 / Cheiracanthium  C. L. Koch, 1839   33 species

Cheiracanthium effossum Herman, 1879

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023301

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Description

Cymbium with spur, at least as long as male palp tibia. Male palpal tibia approximately four times as long as patella. Vulva with long receptaculum seminis, approximately parallel to longitudinal axis of body. Entrance ducts with wide lumen, twisted about three times around receptaculum seminis. Prosoma: 3.2-4.5 mm. Chelicerae male: strongly outwardly bulged distally and inner side indented.

Body length male: 7-8 mm
Body length female: 7-8 mm

Frequency: Very rarely found

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Central to eastern Europe
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Sterghiu 1985)

species

male Chelicerae, frontal view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Sterghiu 1985)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Wolf unpubl.)

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.

Austria   (Nemenz, 1959) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Deltshev et al., 2003b) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
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

Deltshev C D, Ćurčić B P M, Blagoev GA (2003b) The spiders of Serbia. Inst. Zoology, Fac. Biology, Belgrade & Inst. Zoology, Bulg. Acad. Sci., Sofia. 832 pp.

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

Nemenz H (1959) Zur Spinnenfauna des Neusiedlersee-Gebietes. Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten aus dem Burgenland 23: 134-137 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Sterghiu C (1985) Fam. Clubionidae. Fauna Republicii Socialiste România (Arachnida) 5 (4): 1-168 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

Wolf A (unpubl.)

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
16-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
29-09-2017 Image insert