Gibbaranea bruuni Lissner, 2016
Description
Male
Prosoma dark brown and densely covered with whitish and light brown hairs. Opisthosoma with only weakly developed humps and dark folium. Dark spots only in anterior part. Opisthosoma densely covered with hairs of same colour. Coxa I with posterior-apical hook or tooth. Legs annulated, apart from proximal part of femora. Median apophysis of the pedipalp with unequal peak protruding out of one edge of the apical part.
Body length male: 2.6-4.2 mmFemale
Colour similar to male, yet quite variable. Tooth on coxa I missing. Humps of opisthosoma strongly pronounced.
Body length female: 3.6-4.8 mmAdditional information
Smallest member of the genus.
On shrubs and lower branches of conifers in fairly shaded areas. Also found on thorny, unpalatable shrubs in open forests with grazing lifestock.
Collected on Mallorca from 380-815 m, in North Africa only found at sea level up to 200 m.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lissner & Bosmans 2016)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lissner & Bosmans 2016)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lissner & Bosmans 2016)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Barrientos & Febrer 2017)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Barrientos & Febrer 2017)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Barrientos & Febrer 2017)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Barrientos & Febrer 2017)
Median apophysis
(Lissner & Bosmans 2016)
Epigyne
(Lissner & Bosmans 2016)
Epigyne
(Lissner & Bosmans 2016)
Epigyne
(Barrientos & Febrer 2017)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Lissner & Bosmans 2016)
Vulva, ventral view
(Lissner & Bosmans 2016)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Lissner & Bosmans 2016)
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
Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 
Barrientos J A, Febrer J B (2018) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). 2: “adenda et corrigenda”. Descripción de tres especies nuevas. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 33: 39-51
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Lissner J, Bosmans R (2016) Description of a new Gibbaranea (Araneae: Araneidae) from the Western Mediterranean. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 52: 25-30
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