Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Pulchellodromus  Wunderlich, 2012   11 species

Pulchellodromus simoni  (Mello-Leitão, 1929)

Description
Male

Prosoma brown-black, with orange-brown median band and a dark median stripe in posterior area, with yellow-brown V-shaped sign. Sternum yellowish brown, with a blackish hue. Legs mainly brownish black but coxae yellowish and tarsi light brown. Opisthosoma grey, dorsum with cardiac mark and pattern of dark lateral spots and grey posterior angular lines.

Body length male: 2.5-3.2 mm
Female

Colouration as in males, except legs mainly yellow, all segments strongly mottled, except tarsi.

Body length female: 3.45-4.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Portugal, Spain, Algeria
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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.

Algeria   (Muster et al., 2007; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Lecigne S (2017) Contribution a la connaissance de l’araneofaune (Araneae) de l’Algarve (Portugal). Description de Theridion bernardi n.sp. (Araneae: Theridiidae) et redécouverte d’Ozyptila perplexa Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 25-48 pdf

Muster C, Bosmans R, Thaler K (2007) The Philodromus pulchellus-group in the Mediterranean: taxonomic revision, phylogenetic analysis and biogeography (Araneae: Philodromidae). Invertebrate Systematics 21: 39-72 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

Updates
25-02-2022 Distribution insert Detail
01-01-2018 Distribution update Detail
26-11-2013 Datasheet update Detail
26-11-2013 Image insert