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Filistatidae  Ausserer, 1867 / Zaitunia  Lehtinen, 1967   5 species

Zaitunia kerkyra  Lecigne, 2023

Description
Male

Colour: whole spider pale brown to yellowish, prosoma and sternum pale yellow, area between eyes dark brown to brownish-black, abdomen plain, without any pattern.

Prosoma with a few long-scattered setae, denser and curved backward in front of the eye area, absent on the edges of the carapace; legs, sternum and abdomen densely covered with long lying brown hairs.
Pedipalp: femur and tibia subequal in length; tibia about 1.4 times wider than femur, wider in basal part than terminally; cymbium and bulb subequal in length; bulb conical, embolus gently curved subapically, at the junction between the neck of embolus and the embolus proper.

Body length male: 2.7-3.2 mm
Female

Colour: As in male but somewhat darker, blackish colouration in the eye region restricted to the areas between the median and lateral eyes, legs medium-brownish, palpal tarsi dark brown.

Vulva: median receptacles club-like, quite narrow at the base then wider, with heads wider than stems, separated by 2.5 diameters of head; lateral receptacles subglobular, with inconspicuous stems, separated from median receptacles by less than their diameter; pores present on the heads.

Body length female: 4.2-4.8 mm
Additional information

Halophile species.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Only known from Corfu
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece
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.

Greece   (Lecigne, 2023) |||
References

Lecigne S (2023) New contribution to the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of Kerkyra (Corfu) and update of the provisional checklist of species from the Ionian Island. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 38 (1, suppl.): 1-51 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
23-09-2023 Datasheet update Detail
21-09-2023 Image insert
21-09-2023 Distribution insert Detail