Rhode aspinifera (Nikolic, 1963)
Description
Male
Prosoma red-brown, 1.3-1.4 mm long. Both sexes eyeless. Sternum provided with small, robust tubercles. Chelicerae provided with small, robust tubercles. Femur provided with small, robust tubercles.
Body length male: 3.3 mmFemale
Prosoma 1.6 mm long. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth, retromargin with one tooth. Legs covered with hairs, particularly on the ventral side of metatarsus.
Body length female: 3.8 mmAdditional information
Found in caves, deeper ground and under stones.
Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Frequency: Very rarely found
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Thaler 1990c)
Tip of bulbus
(Thaler 1990c)
Bulbus, frontal view
(Thaler 1990c)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Thaler 1990c)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Thaler 1990c)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978a)
Pedicel, dorsal view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978a)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978a)
Tarsal claw of leg I, lateral view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978a)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Deeleman-Reinhold 1978a)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Thaler 1990c)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Thaler 1990c)
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.
References
Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1978a) Les araignées du genre Rhode de Yougoslavie (Araneae, Dysderidae). International Journal of Speleology 9: 251-266 
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
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
Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M (2018b) A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56: 301-316
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
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
Thaler K (1990c) Das Männchen von Rhode aspinifera (Nikolic) (Arachnida: Araneae, Dysderidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 63: 147-152
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