Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Lipocrea  Thorell, 1878   1 species

Lipocrea epeiroides  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Description
Male

Pedipalpus with spoon-shaped median apophysis with slender anterior process. Prosoma length: 2.5-2.8 mm, prosoma width: 1.8-1.9 mm.

Body length male: 6.0-7.2 mm
Female

Epigyne with large and strongly sclerotised scapus. Prosoma length: 2.5-3.2 mm, prosoma width: 1.5-1.9 mm.

Body length female: 7.0-8.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: The sites in Wunderlich (2011a) are on Cyprus and not in Greece
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, Italy (Sardinia, Sicily), Malta, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, India
Phenology
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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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece  Removed (Wunderlich, 2011a; Chatzaki, unpupl.) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019; Bosmans & Colombo, 2015) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019; Dentici, 2017) ||| Malta   (Rehfeldt & Cassar, 2024) ||| Spain   (Méndez et al., 2024) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
References

Bosmans R, Colombo M (2015) New species of spiders from Sardinia (Araneae), with ecological notes on Lipocrea epeiroides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Araneidae). Arachnology 16: 319-332 pdf

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

Chatzaki M (unpupl.) .

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 pdf

Dentici A (2017) Contribution to the knowledge of Sicilian spider fauna (Arachnida Araneae). Biodiversity Journal 8: 861-864 pdf

Levy G (1986) Spiders of the genera Siwa, Larinia, Lipocrea and Drexelia (Araneae: Araneidae) from Israel. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 7: 1-10 pdf

Méndez Ó, Marquerie M, Domènech M (2024) Nuevos registros aracnológicos (Araneae) en Cataluña aportan nuevas citas a nivel regional, nacional y peninsular. Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica 22: 79-94 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Rehfeldt S, Cassar T (2024) A contribution to the arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) of the Maltese Islands, with two new records for Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 67: 18-47 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 (2011a) Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Heutige und fossile Spinnen. Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640 pdf

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