Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Theridion  Walckenaer, 1805   63 species

Theridion italiense  Wunderlich, 1995

Description
Male

Prosoma 1-1.1 mm long. Clypeus with a pair of tubercles.

Body length male: 2.5-3.1 mm
Female

Prosoma yellowish, with a blackish median band on cephalic part, and blackish margin. Prosoma 0.9-1.2 mm long. Sternum yellowish, blackish on the edges. Legs yellowish, with dark annulations. Opisthosoma whitish, dorsally with a dark dentate median band, ventrally with a large blackish blotch in front of spinnerets, and a pair of large blotches on the sides.

Body length female: 2.4-3 mm
Additional information

In limestone mountains, on shrubs in sunny areas or in crevices of rocks. Altitude 350-1000 m.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: France: https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/234138/tab/carte (Corsica is here not confirmed, see Le Peru, 2011)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy, North Macedonia, Romania
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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2011) ||| Greece   (Van Keer et al., 2010) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Romania   (Duma, 2009) |||
References

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

Duma I (2009) New data on Theridion italiense, with description of the unknown female. Journal of Arachnology 37: 383-387 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 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

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 pdf

Van Keer J, Van Keer K, De Koninck H, Ramel G (2010) The arachnofauna (Araneae) of wetland Kerkini (Macedonia-Northern Central Greece). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 62: 141-160 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

Wunderlich J (1995n) Beschreibung von drei bisher unbekannten west-paläarktischen Arten der Gattung Theridion Walckenaer 1805 (Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 691-695 pdf

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