Steatoda paykulliana (Walckenaer, 1806)
Description
Male
Palp relatively small, may be overlooked when viewed from above. Prosoma dark brown to black. Legs yellow-brown, coxa, trochanter and patella darker, the other segments dark apically. Opisthosoma black, with a whitish band around the front, and a strongly dentate, median longitudinal band, ventrally dark brown, with red-brown markings.
Body length male: 4.5-8.4 mmFemale
Prosoma dark purplish brown to black. Sternum dark brown. Legs brown. Opisthosoma black, with a red or yellow band around the front, sometimes with a median longitudinal series of chevrons.
Body length female: 8.0-13.0 mmAdditional information
Usually in dry or semi-dry habitats, dry grasslands, dunes, heathlands, calcareous hill, calcareous quarries, rock crevices, rarely in fallow orchards and meadows.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Noflatscher 1991)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini unpubl.)
Pedipalp
(Noflatscher 1991)
Epigyne
(Pesarini unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1934)
Vulva, ventral view
(Noflatscher 1991)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Noflatscher 1991)
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.
References
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Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173
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Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019
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Noflatscher M-T (1991) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna Südtirols - III: Epigäische Spinnen an Xerotherm-Standorten am Mitterberg, bei Neustift und Sterzing (Arachnida: Aranei). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 78: 79-92
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Pesarini C (unpubl.)
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