Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Pelecopsis  Simon, 1864   40 species

Pelecopsis bucephala  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875)

Description

Tibial apophysis long, terminally with 2 recurved denticles. Epigyne with 2 tubercles on posterior margin. Prosoma reddish orange-yellow, punctured, head region tinged with brown, with a nose-like projection above clypeus and a globular tubercle bearing posterior median eyes. Sternum reddish orange-yellow, punctured. Legs bright orange-yellow. Opisthosoma black, with scutum, with punctured spots

Body length male: 2-2.8 mm
Body length female: 2-2.75 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Western Mediterranean
Phenology
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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   (Bosmans & Abrous, 1992; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Dentici et al., 2022) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans & Abrous, 1992) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
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

Bosmans R, Abrous O (1992) Studies on North African Linyphiidae VI. The genera Pelecopsis Simon, Trichopterna Kulczyński and Ouedia gen. n. (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9: 65-85 pdf

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

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

Cárdenas M, Barrientos J A (2011) Arañas del olivar andaluz (Arachnida; Araneae). Aspectos faunísticos. Zoologica Baetica 22: 99-136 pdf

Dentici A, Barbera A, Ditta A, Surdo S (2022) On some new reports on the spider fauna of Italy and Sicily (Arachnida Araneae). Biodiversity Journal 13: 399-408 pdf

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

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Pesarini C (unpubl.)

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
22-01-2024 Distribution update Detail
01-07-2022 Distribution insert Detail
25-07-2020 Image insert
02-02-2017 Image insert
15-04-2013 Distribution update Detail