Palaestina expolita O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
Description
Male
Prosoma medium brown with darker pattern of fine lines. Prosoma length: 1.25 mm. Legs brownish yellow. Opisthosoma with dark brown-grey dorsal scutum, venter sclerotized, in front yellow, cream in posterior third.
Body length male: 2-3 mmFemale
Colouration as in males, dorsal scutum less strongly sclerotized. Prosoma length: 1.35 mm.
Body length female: 2-3 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Jocqué 1991)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Jocqué 1991)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levy 1992)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1992)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1992)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Lecigne 2023)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne 2023)
Palpal tibia, ventro-lateral view
(Levy 1992)
Palpal tibia, lateral view
(Jocqué 1991)
Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2023)
Tibial apophysis, dorsal view
(Jocqué 1991)
Chelicerae and eyes, frontal view
(Levy 1992)
Habitus, frontal view
(Lecigne 2023)
Epigyne
(Jocqué 1991)
Epigyne
(Levy 1992)
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
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 
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
Jocqué R (1991) A generic revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 201: 1-160
Lecigne S (2023) New contribution to the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of Kerkyra (Corfu) and update of the provisional checklist of species from the Ionian Island. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 38 (1, suppl.): 1-51
Levy G (1992) The spider genera Palaestina, Trygetus, Zodarion and Ranops (Araneae, Zodariidae) in Israel with annotations on species of the Middle East. Israel Journal of Zoology 38: 67-110
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
Updates
| 21-09-2023 | Image insert | |
| 21-09-2023 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 13-06-2021 | Image insert | |
| 02-01-2021 | Image insert |