Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Stalita  Schiødte, 1847   4 species

Stalita taenaria  Schiødte, 1847

Description
Male

Palp: bulb long, almost cylindrical, end of bulb with numerous long teeth, tip of embolus claw-shaped. Prosoma flat, deeply dark rust brown. Legs red-brown, with numerous spines only on tibiae and femora, partly wisp-like. Opisthosoma bright ivory-coloured, longish oval, densely haired.

Body length male: 6.7 mm
Female

Vulva: anterior part T-shaped. Prosoma 3.2-3.7 mm long. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth, retromargin with one tooth.

Body length female: 7-9 mm
Additional information

living in caves

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy, Slovenia, Croatia
Figures
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.

Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) |||
References

Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1978a) Les araignées du genre Rhode de Yougoslavie (Araneae, Dysderidae). International Journal of Speleology 9: 251-266 pdf

Deeleman-Reinhold C L, Deeleman P R (1988) Revision des Dysderinae (Araneae, Dysderidae), les espèces mediterranéennes occidentales exceptées. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 131: 141-269 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Kratochvíl J (1970) Cavernicole Dysderae. Přírodovědné práce ústavů Československé Akademie Věd v Brně (N.S.) 4: 1-62 pdf

Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 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, 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 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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