Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Thyene  Simon, 1885   4 species

Thyene phragmitigrada  Metzner, 1999

Description
Male

Body elongated. Prosoma dorsally brown, sloping sides dark brown with black margin with white hairs. Opisthosoma dorsally black-brown with orange-brown punctuation and long white and black hairs. Anteriorly with T-shaped band of white scales, which is elongated posteriorly by metallic shiny scales. Palp: Tibial apophysis longer and curved, embolus distally buckled, tip of tegular apophysis at 8 o'clock position.

Body length male: 5.0-6.3 mm
Female

Body elongated. Prosoma dorsally light yellow-orange, posterior sloping side with two posteriorly diverging black longitudinal stripes. Opisthosoma beige, dorsally with black pattern and on each side with three diagonal bands of white hairs. Epigyne: wide, slightly heart-shaped depression and curved sperm ducts which end laterally in receptacles that look as black spots, posterior rim of epigyneal plate only weakly indented.

Body length female: 6.7-8.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, Greece
Phenology
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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.

Greece   (Metzner, 1999) ||| Spain   (Sánchez et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019; Barrientos & Febrer, 2017) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 pdf

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

Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279 pdf

Sánchez I, Pérez A, Amarillo J M, Pedreño M (2019) Ampliación del catálogo de arañas de la provincia de Cádiz, con una nueva especie para la Península Ibérica (España). Revista de la Sociedad Gaditana de Historia Natural 13: 33-42 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
10-03-2023 Distribution insert Detail
10-03-2023 Distribution update Detail
02-01-2018 Image insert
30-12-2017 Distribution update Detail
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail