Synaphridae  Wunderlich, 1986 / Cepheia  Simon, 1894   1 species

Cepheia longiseta  (Simon, 1881)

Description
Male

Bulbus large. Embolus long. Metatarsus I without spines.

Body length male: 0.78 mm
Female

Epigyne without scapus, posterior margin not stronger sclerotised. Prosoma olive-brown, with a large median blackish blotch, and very thin lines. Prosoma 0.32 mm long. Legs brownish. Opisthosoma globular, blackish. Colulus large, fleshy, triangular.

Body length female: 1-1.2 mm
Additional information

West Mediterranean species. This species probably constructs a sheet web.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Southern Europe
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.

Austria   (no references) ||| France   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Caria et al., 2021) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Caria M, Pantini P, Alamanni F, Ancona C, Cillo D, Bazzato E (2021) New records and interesting data for the Sardinian spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 53: 321-331 pdf

Domènech M, Bellvert A, Closa L, Maceda-Veiga A, Pons P (2021) New record of Attulus saltator for Spain, with further 16 new regional spider records for Catalonia and Galicia (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 75-81 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

Thaler K, Noflatscher M-T (1990) Neue und bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Südtirol (Arachnida: Aranei). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 69: 169-190 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 (1980d) Über europäische Symphytognathidae (Arach.: Araneae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 23: 259-273 pdf

Wunderlich J (2021) Few new, rare or special species of spiders from the Algarve, Portugal (Arachnida: Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 14: 3-24 pdf

Updates
05-12-2021 Distribution insert Detail
14-10-2021 Image insert
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