Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Rhomphaea  L. Koch, 1872   5 species

Rhomphaea rostrata  (Simon, 1873)

Description
Male

Prosoma without tubercle. Prosoma 1-1.5 mm long. Opisthosoma narrow, with a very long posterior tubercle, cylindrical, part behind the spinnerets 3 or more times as long as the rest of opisthosoma, the end of tubercle is curved.

Female

Epigyne: deep and longitudinal furrow. Prosoma brownish, with a dark borderline, clypeus wide, almost horizontal. Prosoma 1.2 mm long. Sternum brown, with reddish spots. Legs whitish, with a ventral reddish line. Opisthosoma pale yellow, a little silvery, with 2 lateral greyish bands, ventrally brownish, with a very long posterior tubercle, cylindrical, part behind the spinnerets 3 times as long as the rest of opisthosoma.

Body length female: 4-6.2 mm
Additional information

In garrigue, on oaks and heather.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Canary Is., Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece
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.

Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Komnenov, 2010) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Mazzoleni, 2018) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Dentici & Amata, 2018) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

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

Dentici A, Amata F C (2018) New faunistic data for the Sicilian arachnofauna (Arachnida Araneae). Biodiversity Journal 9: 271-276 pdf

Helsdingen P J van (2009c) A possible record of Rhomphaea longicaudata from Greece (Araneae, Theridiidae). Nieuwsbrief SPINED 27: 10-15 pdf

Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69 pdf

Kulczyński W (1905a) Fragmenta arachnologica. I-IV. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1904: 533-568 pdf

Lecigne S (2016c) Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) de Crète (Grèce) et description de la femelle inconnue de Neaetha absheronica Logunov & Guseinov, 2002 (Salticidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 30: 95-118 pdf

Lecigne S (2018b) Récits de chasses aranéologiques récentes dans plusieurs départements de France. Redécouverte de Philodromus buchari Kubcová, 2004 (Araneae: Philodromidae) et confirmation de la présence de Theridion harmsi Wunderlich, 2011 (Araneae: Theridiidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 33: 59-99 pdf

Lissner J (2017b) A contribution to the knowledge of Rhomphaea L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae: Theridiidae) in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian regions. Arachnology 17: 287-293 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Pantini P, Mazzoleni F (2018) I ragni de Calabria (Arachnida Araneae). Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "E. Caffi", Bergamo 31: 11-69 pdf

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

Wunderlich J (1987) Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen, 435 pp. pdf

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