Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Dysdera  Latreille, 1804   220 species

Dysdera kollari Doblika, 1853

Description
Male

Male in Gasparo (2004a) possibly misidentified.

Female

Prosoma flattened, 3.5 mm long. Prosoma and sternum almost smooth. Eyes: anteriors one diameter apart. Chelicerae with 4 teeth, the distal quarter of furrow without hairs. Legs: tibia III with 2 or 3 spines, tibia IV with 2 ventral spines, posterior metatarsus with 2 spines.

Body length female: 5-6.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Record from Azerbaijan was based on a misidentification, therefore removed (Otto 2020)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy, Malta, Balkans, Greece, Turkey
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Azerbaijan  Removed (Nuruyeva & Zamani, 2025) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Malta   (Cassar & Řezáč, 2021) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
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) pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Cassar T, Řezáč M (2021) The Dysderidae of the Maltese Islands (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 82-85 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Deeleman-Reinhold C L, Deeleman P R (1988) Revision des Dysderinae (Araneae, Dysderidae), les espèces mediterranéennes occidentales exceptées. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 131: 141-269 pdf

Gasparo F (2004a) Descrizione di Dysdera arganoi n. sp. della Calabria meridionale (Araneae, Dysderidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 36: 93-102 pdf

Hansen H (1995) Über die Arachniden-Fauna von urbanen Lebensräumen in Venedig - III. Die epigäischen Spinnen eines Stadtparkes (Arachnida: Araneae). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 44: 7-36 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

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

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 pdf

Nuruyeva T, Zamani A (2025) An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa 5680: 1-168 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Sassu A, Serra G (2013) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida Araneae) of Sardinia. Biodiversity Journal 4: 3-104 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

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