Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Histopona  Thorell, 1870   23 species

Histopona myops  (Simon, 1885)

Description
Male

Retrolateral tibial apophysis almost trapezoid in posterior-retrolateral view. Conductor laminous, semicircular at base. Embolus whip-shaped, broadened at base. Prosoma and sternum yellow-orange. Chelicerae brown-orange. Legs yellow-orange. Opisthosoma white, with brown hairs.

Body length male: 6.7 mm
Female

Vulva with coiled copulatory ducts (3 coils).

Body length female: 7.6 mm
Additional information

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: not in Bulgaria (Deltshev & Petrov 2008)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): South-eastern Europe
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.

Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2002) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1984b) Ragni di Grecia XII. Nuovi dati su varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 91: 281-321 pdf

Deltshev C D (1985b) New data concerning cave spiders (Araneae) in Greece with description of a new Leptonetela (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 27: 41-45 pdf

Deltshev C, Petrov B (2008) The spiders (Araneae) in the caves of the western Rhodope Mountains (Bulgaria). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 60: 41-50 pdf

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

Gasparo F (2005b) Note sulle Histopona Thorell, 1869, del gruppo Myops di Grecia, con descrizione di una nuova specie cavernicola (Araneae, Agelenidae). Atti e Memorie, Commissione Grotte "Eugenio Boegan" 40: 17-35 pdf

Komnenov M (2002) Contribution to the study of spiders (Araneae) on Šar Planina Mountain, north-west Macedonia. Bulletin of the Biology Students’ Research Society 2: 103-110 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 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
10-09-2018 Distribution update Detail
04-12-2014 Image insert
05-12-2013 Distribution update Detail
30-04-2013 Image insert