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

Rhomphaea sagana  (Dönitz & Strand, 1906)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007140

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Description
Male

Prosoma with deep transverse groove in thoracic area, with a long snout and elevated in thoracic area. Opisthosoma extended above and posterior to spinnerets, placing spinnerets almost midway between pedicel and distal end of opisthosoma. Opisthosoma long, slender, tapering and prolonged behind spinnerets. Leg segments with bands. Palp: tibia longer than cymbium.

Prosoma length: 1.4 mm, prosoma width: 0.7 mm.

Female

Prosoma strongly elongated, tapering sausage-shaped, dorsally convex. Pars cephalica ends in transversal groove. Clypeus strongly protruding. Spinnerets located far anteriorly, making the opisthosoma look like an acute triangle in lateral view. Opisthosoma in anterior third and posteriorly light, dark brown in between.

Prosoma length: 1.4 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan, Philippines
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Song et al. 1999)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2021)

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male Habitus, lateral view
(Zamani et al. 2021)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Song et al. 1999)

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female Vulva
(Song et al. 1999)

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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) |||
References

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Song D X, Zhu M S, Chen J (1999) The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. 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

Zamani A, Nadolny A A, Esyunin S L, Marusik Y M (2021) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part VIII. Zoosystematica Rossica 30: 279-297 pdf

Updates
05-12-2021 Image insert
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail
20-11-2014 Image insert