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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Simitidion  Wunderlich, 1992   3 species

Simitidion lacuna  Wunderlich, 1992

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008008

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Description
Male

Palp: embolus partly enclosed by the large conductor. Prosoma 0.82-1.2 mm long. Characters as in female, but opisthosoma dorsally red-brown, with an indistinct light patch. Epigastric area strongly bulging.

Body length male: 1.8-3 mm
Female

Prosoma yellowish, with a dark median band. Prosoma 0.8-1.2 mm long. Sternum yellowish. Eyes: AME as large as PME. Chelicerae: promargin without teeth. Legs yellowish, with more or less clear annulations, metatarsus III without trichobothrium. Opisthosoma dorsally with a large angular yellow patch, bordered with brown, posteriorly with a yellowish median band, laterally greenish with 2 brown bands, ventrally brownish, with some white dots in front of spinnerets.

Body length female: 2.3-3.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Canary Is., Spain, North Africa, Israel
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)

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female Epigyne
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)

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female Habitus
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)

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) ||| Libya   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||
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

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

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

Levy G, Amitai P (1982a) The comb-footed spider genera Theridion, Achaearanea and Anelosimus of Israel (Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of Zoology, London 196: 81-131 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