Smeringopus pallidus (Blackwall, 1858)
Description
Male
Male prosoma ochre-yellow with brown median and lateral marks, clypeus with pair of dark stripes, sternum brown, legs ochre-yellow to light brown, femora and tibiae with dark subdistal rings and lighter tips, opisthosoma ochre-grey with distinct dorsal and ventral pattern. Ocular area slightly elevated, deep thoracic pit. Chelicerae with small distal apophyses. Palpal coxa with small but distinct retrolateral apophysis, femur with wide retrolateral furrow, proximal rim slightly more distinct, cymbium with projection near tarsal organ, bulb with sclerotized embolus and distinctive dorsal process. Legs without spines, few vertical hairs, with curved hairs ventrally on tibiae and metatarsi I and II, retrolateral trichobothrium on tibia I at 2.5 %; prolateral trichobothrium present on tibia I.
Body length male: 5.3 mmFemale
Females in general similar to males. Epigynum a simple, small oval to rectangular dark plate without pockets.
Additional information
This species of African origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced into Europe and did not establish yet (Huber et al. 2017).
Distribution
Figures
Bulbus
(Huber 2001)
Bulbus
(Huber 2001)
Procursus, retrolateral view
(Huber 2001)
Procursus, retrolateral view
(Huber 2012)
Procursus, prolateral view
(Huber 2012)
Procursus, dorsal view
(Huber 2012)
Bulbal apophysis, prolateral view
(Huber 2012)
Bulbal apophysis, dorsal view
(Huber 2012)
Chelicerae, frontal view
(Huber 2012)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Huber 2001)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Huber 2012)
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
Boettger C R (1929) Eingeschleppte Tiere in Berliner Gewächshäusern. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere 15: 674-705 
Helsdingen P J van (2024) Catalogus van de Nederlandse spinnen. Versie 2024.3. 252 pp.
Huber B A (2001) The pholcids of Australia (Araneae; Pholcidae): taxonomy, biogeography, and relationships. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 260: 1-144
Huber B A (2012) Revision and cladistic analysis of the Afrotropical endemic genus Smeringopus Simon, 1890 (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 3461: 1-138
Huber B A, Neumann J, Grabolle A, Hula V (2017) Aliens in Europe: updates on the distributions of Modisimus culicinus and Micropholcus fauroti (Araneae, Pholcidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 12-18
Workman T (1878) Description of two new species of spiders. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 2: 451-453
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