Uloboridae  Thorell, 1869 / Uloborus  Latreille, 1806   3 species

Uloborus gilvus (Blackwall, 1870)

Description
Male

Unknown.

Female

Epigyne: dark brown, with a strong process, directed obliquely downwards and backwards from their anterior margin, having its bifid extremity of a pale brownish-yellow hue. Prosoma long, rounded on the sides, glossy, convex, covered with whitish hairs, and with a median and 2 lateral longitudinal brown bands. Prosoma 2.5 mm long. Sternum dark brown. Eyes: lateral ocular quadrangle narrower in front. Legs pale brownish-yellow. Opisthosoma oval oblong, whitish, with a short, dark brown, slightly ramified band, whose anterior part is the broadest, ventrally with a brown area.

Body length female: 7 mm
Additional information

Species inquirenda per Pantini & Isaia (2019).

No illustrations provided by the author.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Omitted from the Italian checklist by Pantini & Isaia (2019)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy, Greece
Females in summer.
Figures
Distribution List
Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

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

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

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
20-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
03-03-2022 Image insert