Gnaphosa artaensis Wunderlich, 2011
Description
Male
Prosoma medium to dark brown, margin black, thoracic part with a pair of black spots. Prosoma length: 2.4-4.0 mm. Chelicerae and sternum dark brown. Promargin of chelicera with a large medial tooth. Legs mainly light brown, femora darkened. Opisthosoma grey-brown. dorsum with indistinct markings, scutum and three pairs of sigillae red-brown.
Body length male: 5.5-8.6 mmFemale
Prosoma length: 2.6-4.0 mm.
Body length female: 6.5-10.0 mmAdditional information
Reduction of the spine number in the segments of the anterior legs, with the presence of two ventral spines on the basal half of metatarsals I and II in both sexes (Morano & González-Casarrubios 2021).
In dune area and in a holm oak meadow.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 2011a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 2011a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 2015b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Morano & González-Casarrubios 2021)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Morano & González-Casarrubios 2021)
Embolic division, ventral view
(Wunderlich 2023)
Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 2015b)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 2015b)
Epigyne
(Wunderlich 2017)
Epigyne
(Lozano & Alameda-Martín 2020)
Epigyne
(Morano & González-Casarrubios 2021)
Vulva
(Wunderlich 2017)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Morano & González-Casarrubios 2021)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Morano & González-Casarrubios 2021)
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
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 
Lozano J A, Alameda-Martín A (2020) Aportación al conocimiento de las arañas (Araneae) de la provincia de Cuenca (Castilla La Mancha, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 173-177
Morano E, González-Casarrubios A (2021) Presencia de Gnaphosa artaensis Wunderlich, 2011 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) en la comunidad de Madrid (España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 39: 111-114
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
Wunderlich J (2011a) Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Heutige und fossile Spinnen. Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640
Wunderlich J (2015b) Descriptions of two Gnaphosidae (Araneae) from Portugal: Phaeocedus mikha Levy 2009 new to Europe, and Gnaphosa monteserra n. sp. Beiträge zur Araneologie 9: 446-449
Wunderlich J (2017) Descriptions, notes and synonyms of some mainly Mediterranean and Macaronesian spiders (Araneae) of various families. Beiträge zur Araneologie 10: 298-326, 354
Wunderlich J (2023) Contribution to the spider (Araneida) fauna of the Algarve, Portugal, with notes on the phylogeny of the superfamily Araneoidea and the description of the new araneoid family Fonteferridae. Beiträge zur Araneologie 16: 4-112