Male palp with characteristic, pad-shaped tutaculum (apophysis supporting tip of embolus). 2 bulbal apophyses, one ventral, hook-shaped, apophysis bent at 90°, that is slightly transverse and a lateral one, that is chisel-like, straight. Cymbium and bulbus roundish. Tibial apophysis situated ventrally and basally bullous, cut at an angle distally, further retrolateral apophysis broad at base and tapering toward tip. Embolus rather massive. Epigyne characteristically margined dark and strongly sclerotised, with median septum. Epigynal pits variable in shape, often closed with dark, hard glandular secretion. Vulva has 2 sac-like structures separated from each other, without visible ducts. Prosoma dark brown to light brown. Female: brown, red-brown, sand-coloured to olive brown. With white to cream-coloured, V-shaped sign, with bright, cream-coloured eye field. Sternum light brown, or beige, partly also cream marbled, margin dark brown, longish oval, scarcely spined. Chelicerae proximally brown, afterwards broadly cream-coloured and distally beige, with a long, thin spine. Female: with a long and a shorter spine, rarely with additional bristles. Legs light to dark brown, hardly any white parts, except the dorsal longitudinal stripes. Opisthosoma partly contrast-rich, white and brown, with white margin and vaguely marked off brown to beige oval or leaf-shaped pattern. 5 visible sigilla. Spinnerets light brown to brown.

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Under stones in alpine meadows and shrubby heathland, locations between 960-2300 m