Iberina microphthalma (Snazell & Duffey, 1980)
Description
Male
Prosoma pale, yellowish white, without pattern, ocular area slightly darker. Eyes completely reduced. Sternum light, covered with very long hairs. Legs pale, with conspicuously long spines and hairs. Opisthosoma pale, covered with long hairs
Body length male: 1.2 mmFemale
Prosoma chelicerae, sternum and legs pale yellow, eyes distinctly to totally reduced. Opisthosoma pale yellow-grey to white, covered with black hairs.
Body length female: 1.1-1.4 mmAdditional information
In damp locations in moss and leaf litter
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Weiss & Sarbu 1996)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Růžička 2022)
Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Weiss & Sarbu 1996)
Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Weiss & Sarbu 1996)
Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Růžička 2022)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Weiss & Sarbu 1996)
Pedipalp
(Georgescu & Sarbu 1992)
Epigyne
(Snazell & Duffey 1980)
Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Georgescu & Sarbu 1992)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Ledoux 2014)
Vulva, ventral view
(Szita et al. 1998)
Vulva
(Szita et al. 1998)
Vulva
(Ledoux 2014)
Vulva, ventral view
(Mezőfi & Markó 2018)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Mezőfi & Markó 2018)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Růžička 2022)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Georgescu & Sarbu 1992)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Ledoux 2014)
Chelicera
(Georgescu & Sarbu 1992)
Claws
(Georgescu & Sarbu 1992)
Spinnerets
(Georgescu & Sarbu 1992)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Szita et al. 1998)
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
Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 
Georgescu M, Sarbu S (1992) Description d'un nouveau taxon: Iberina caeca de la grotte "Pestera de la Movile" (Araneae-Hahniidae). Mémoires de Biospéologie 19: 139-141
Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76
Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212
Ledoux, J-C (2014) Les Hahniidae de la faune française (Araneae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 1: 29-40
Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13
Mezőfi L, Markó V (2018) Some rare and remarkable spider species from Hungary (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 1-9
Růžička V (2021) Pavouci nehlubokých podzemních biotopů Slovenska [Spiders from shallow subterranean habitats in Slovakia]. Pavouk 50: 9-10
Růžička V (2022) A review of the spider genus Iberina (Araneae, Hahniidae). Zootaxa 5133: 555-566
Růžička V, Dolansky J (2014) Hahnia microphthalma. Pavouk 36: 5-9
Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html
Snazell R, Duffey E (1980) A new species of Hahnia (Araneae, Hahniidae) from Britain. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5: 50-52
Szita É, Samu F, Bleicher K, Botos E (1998) Data to the spider fauna (Araneae) of Körös-Maros National Park (Hungary). Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica 33: 341-348
Weiss I, Sarbu S M (1996) Das unbekannte Männchen der Höhlenspinne Hahnia caeca n. comb., mit Hinweisen zur Funktion der Tibial-Apophyse des männlichen Pedipalpus (Arachnida, Araneae, Hahniidae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 36: 163-171
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
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