araneae - Palliduphantes melitensis

Palliduphantes melitensis (Bosmans, 1994)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011238

Description

Male

Prosoma yellowish orange, fovea and margins greyish. Prosoma length: 0.86-1.0 mm. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth. Legs yellowish orange. Opisthosoma dark grey.

Body length male: 1.8-2.0 mm

Female

Prosoma length: 1.00-1.02 mm. Colouration as in males, sometimes with 3 paler V-shaped spots on dorsum of opisthosoma.

Body length female: 2.3-2.5 mm

Additional information

Under stones in dry habitats.

Character states from linyphiid key

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2024): Malta

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Figures

Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans & Dandria 1994)

Embolic division, ventral view
(Bosmans & Dandria 1994)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosmans & Dandria 1994)

Epigyne, lateral view
(Bosmans & Dandria 1994)

Epigyne, dorsal view
(Bosmans & Dandria 1994)

Vulva
(Bosmans & Dandria 1994)

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, Dandria D (1994) Some new records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Maltese Islands (central Mediterranean). Animalia 20: 23-26

Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2