Paratrachelas maculatus (Thorell, 1875)
Description
Male
Prosoma light chestnut brown, with small pits. Prosoma length: 1.4-2.1 mm, prosoma width: 1.2-1.8 mm. Chelicerae chestnut brown, promargin with 3 teeth, retromargin with 2 teeth. Sternum light chestnut brown, slightly pitted. Legs orange-brown, femora of anterior legs darker. Opisthosoma grey, with 2 large, irregular light spots anteriorly and 2 transversal median light patches, dorsal scutum absent.
Body length male: 3.0-4.0 mmFemale
Prosoma as in males. Prosoma length: 1.7-2.2 mm, prosoma width 1.5-1.9 mm. Chelicerae brown, toothed as in males. Sternum orange-brown, margin darker, with some small pits. Legs orange-brown. Opisthosoma as in males, but with additional pale chevrons in posterior part and the white patches with a pattern of small grey spots.
Body length female: 3.4-5.2 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2009)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2009)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2009)
Epigyne
(Bauer & Grabolle 2012)
Epigyne
(Gajdoš et al. 2020)
Vulva, ventral view
(Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2009)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk & Nadolny 2009)
Vulva
(Bauer & Grabolle 2012)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Bosselaers et al. 2009)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Bauer & Grabolle 2012)
Habitus, ventral view
(Stein 2024)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Stein 2024)
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.
References
Bauer T, Bayer S, Derschmidt E, Höfer H (2019b) Description of the egg sac of Paratrachelas maculatus, with notes on its establishment in urban regions of Germany and Austria (Araneae: Trachelidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 26-30 
Bauer T, Grabolle A (2012) Erstnachweise von Paratrachelas maculatus in Österreich und Deutschland (Araneae, Corinnidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 77-80
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)
Bosselaers J, Urones C, Barrientos J A, Alberdi J M (2009) On the Mediterranean species of Trachelinae (Araneae, Corinnidae) with a revision of Trachelas L. Koch 1872 on the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Arachnology 37: 15-38
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Gajdoš P, Szinetár S, Román K, Šestáková A, Purgat P, Černecká Ľ (2020) Clubiona pseudoneglecta and Paratrachelas maculatus, two spider species new to the Slovak fauna (Araneae: Clubionidae, Trachelidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 60: 44-49
Geci D, Naumova M (2021b) A preliminary checklist of the spiders of Kosovo (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologia Balkanica, Special Edition 4: 11-28
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Kovblyuk M M, Nadolny A A (2009) The spider genus Trachelas L. Koch, 1872 in Crimea and Caucasus with the description of Paratrachelas gen.n. (Aranei: Corinnidae). Arthropoda Selecta 18: 35-46
Nikolić F, Polenec A (1981) Catalogus Faunae Jugoslaviae. III/4. Aranea. Cons. Acad. Scient. Publ. Soc. Foed. Jug. 135 pp.
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
Řezáč M, Růžička V, Hula V, Dolanský J, Machač O, Roušar A (2021) Spiders newly observed in Czechia in recent years – overlooked or invasive species? BioInvasions Records 10: 555-566
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
Stein S (2024) Paratrachelas maculatus (Thorell, 1875) (Araneae, Trachelidae), espèce nouvelle d’araignée pour la faune d’Alsace (France, Grand Est). Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire naturelle et d'Ethnographie de Colmar 80: 7-8
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