araneae - Ruborridion musivum

Description

Male

Characters as in female.

Body length male: 1.5-1.7 mm

Female

Prosoma light reddish brown, 0.67 mm long. Sternum light reddish. Eyes: median ocular quadrangle a little wider than long. Legs light red-yellow. Opisthosoma globular, reddish, dorsally with irregular brownish blotches, ventrally with small brownish blotches, and a black patch on anterior part.

Body length female: 1.7-2.0 mm

Additional information

In shrubs and dry grasses.

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2024): Mediterranean, India

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Female with egg sac in June

Figures

Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)

Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)

Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

Epigyne
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)

Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)

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 (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Croatia (Knoflach et al., 2009b) ||| Egypt (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| France (no references) ||| France / Corsica (no references) ||| Italy (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily (Dentici et al., 2022) ||| Morocco (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Portugal (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||

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

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

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

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

Knoflach B, Rollard C, Thaler K (2009b) Notes on Mediterranean Theridiidae (Araneae) - II. ZooKeys 16: 227-264

Levy G, Amitai P (1982a) The comb-footed spider genera Theridion, Achaearanea and Anelosimus of Israel (Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of Zoology, London 196: 81-131

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

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

Ruborridion musivum (Simon, 1873)