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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Rhomphaea  L. Koch, 1872   5 species

Rhomphaea longicaudata  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007083

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Description
Male

Opisthosoma exceedingly extended behind, slightly sinuous and tapered, posterior blunt tip armed with a fleshy, curved process, additional four, small fleshy processes protrude from sides, close to posterior tip.

Prosoma length: 1.2 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.

Female

Legs yellow. Prosoma with grey to dark grey lateral bands over whole length. Elongate prosoma with dark margins which continue over the clypeus and chelicerae, with very long and thin legs, lightly coloured abdomen prolonged behind spinnerets and ending with a hook-like tip.

Prosoma length: 1.7 mm, prosoma width: 1.1 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece, Lebanon
Figures
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male Habitus, lateral view
(Wunderlich 1987)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Lissner 2017b)

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female Epigyne
(Lissner 2017b)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Lissner 2017b)

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female Epigyne
(Lissner 2017b)

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female Vulva
(Lissner 2017b)

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female Prosoma, lateral view
(Lissner 2017b)

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female Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Lissner 2017b)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Lissner 2017b)

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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) |||
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 pdf

Lissner J (2017b) A contribution to the knowledge of Rhomphaea L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae: Theridiidae) in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian regions. Arachnology 17: 287-293 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

Wunderlich J (1987) Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen, 435 pp. pdf

Updates
16-11-2017 Distribution update Detail
16-11-2017 Image insert
25-06-2013 Image insert