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Hersiliidae  Thorell, 1869 / Hersiliola  Thorell, 1870   4 species

Hersiliola macullulata  (Dufour, 1831)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006070

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Description
Male

Palp: bulb simple, with discoidal tegulum wider than cymbium, embolus issues basally and encircles tegulum one and a half times, tegular apophysis hook-shaped. Prosoma 1.9 mm long.

Body length male: 4.3-4.5 mm
Female

Epigyne: sclerotised plate wider than long, with a triangular septum and 2 lateral dimples. Vulva: 4 or more tight coils of ducts around spermathecal body. Prosoma 2-2.4 mm long, cephalic part elevated, thoracic part flat. Opisthosoma narrow in front, wider behind.

Body length female: 4.9-5.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Spain, Algeria, Mali, Israel, Yemen, Iran
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Females probably all the year.
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levy 2003)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 2003)

species

female Epigyne
(Levy 2003)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 2003)

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) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Libya   (Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, 2003) |||
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

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Bosmans R (2003) A checklist of the spiders of Tunisia, with description of a new species of Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Kaupia - Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 12: 89-109 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

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

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 pdf

Levy G (2003) Spiders of the families Anyphaenidae, Hahniidae, Ctenidae, Zoridae, and Hersiliidae (Araneae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 49: 1-31 pdf

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
11-01-2025 Distribution update Detail
06-12-2016 Datasheet update Detail