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Trachelidae  Simon, 1897 / Trachelas  L. Koch, 1872   5 species

Trachelas canariensis Wunderlich, 1987

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025493

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Description
Male

Prosoma yellow-ochre, covered with small warts. Prosoma length: 1.24 mm. Chelicerae brown, pro- and retromargin each with 2 small teeth. Sternum smooth, light yellow-brown, margin darker. Legs orange-yellow. Opisthosoma cream, posterior quarter darker, with a chocolate brown inverted triangular patch with pale chevrons, dorsal scutum narrow, orange-yellow, shining, as long as opisthosoma, width variable.

Body length male: 2.4-3.0 mm
Female

Prosoma orange-yellow, covered with small warts. Prosoma length: 1.22 mm. Chelicerae, sternum and legs as in males. Opisthosoma with variable pattern: from creme with chocolate brown posterior part to dark greyish brown with 4 paler spots around sigilla and some dark brown chevrons posteriorly. Scutum absent.

Body length female: 2.5-3.4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, Canary Is., Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Ethiopia, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 2012a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 2012a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Haddad & Lyle 2025)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Haddad & Lyle 2025)

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male Palpal femur, ventral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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male Habitus
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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female Epigyne
(Wunderlich 2012a)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 2012a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Haddad & Lyle 2025)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Haddad & Lyle 2025)

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female Habitus
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)

Distribution List
Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

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

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Bosselaers J, Urones C, Barrientos J A, Alberdi J M (2009) On the Mediterranean species of Trachelinae (Araneae, Corinnidae) with a revision of Trachelas L. Koch 1872 on the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Arachnology 37: 15-38 pdf

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

Haddad, C. R. & Lyle, R (2025) A revision of the genus Trachelas L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae: Trachelidae) in the continental Afrotropical Region. Zootaxa 5673: 451-493 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 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 (2012a) Identification key to the European genera of the spider family Corinnidae (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 7: 12-24 pdf

Updates
07-08-2025 Image insert
07-08-2025 Distribution update Detail