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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Ruborridion  Wunderlich, 2011   1 species

Ruborridion musivum  (Simon, 1873)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007861

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Description
Male

Characters as in female.

Body length male: 1.5-1.7 mm
Female

Prosoma light reddish brown, 0.67 mm long. Sternum light reddish. Eyes: median ocular quadrangle a little wider than long. Legs light red-yellow. Opisthosoma globular, reddish, dorsally with irregular brownish blotches, ventrally with small brownish blotches, and a black patch on anterior part.

Body length female: 1.7-2.0 mm
Additional information

In shrubs and dry grasses.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Mediterranean, India
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Female with egg sac in June
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

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

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

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

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female Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Knoflach et al. 2009b)

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female Epigyne
(Levy & Amitai 1982a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(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) ||| Croatia   (Knoflach et al., 2009b) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Dentici et al., 2022) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (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

Dentici A, Barbera A, Ditta A, Surdo S (2022) On some new reports on the spider fauna of Italy and Sicily (Arachnida Araneae). Biodiversity Journal 13: 399-408 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Knoflach B, Rollard C, Thaler K (2009b) Notes on Mediterranean Theridiidae (Araneae) - II. ZooKeys 16: 227-264 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 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

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

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
11-12-2024 Distribution update Detail
01-07-2022 Distribution insert Detail