Dictynidae  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 / Nigma  Lehtinen, 1967   6 species

Nigma hortensis (Simon, 1870)

Description

Bulbus: Konduktor long and directed prolaterad.

Body length male: 4 mm
Body length female: 4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France, Algeria
Phenology
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Figures
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   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Ferrández M A (1982) La colección de araneidos del Departamento de Zoología de la Universidad de Salamanca, III: arañas migalomorfas, haploginas, y cribeladas. Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología 5: 75-86 pdf

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

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Lissner J (2017a) New records of spiders (Araneae) from Portugal. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 54: 52-58 pdf

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 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

Wunderlich J (2011c) On extant West-Palearctic (mainly Southern European) spiders (Araneae) of various families, with new descriptions. Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 158-338 pdf

Updates
09-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
02-09-2023 Image insert
25-02-2022 Distribution insert Detail
02-10-2017 Image insert
29-04-2014 Image insert
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