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Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Tegenaria  Latreille, 1804   109 species

Tegenaria mirifica  Thaler, 1987

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021260

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Description
Male

Anterior eye row procurved. Promargin of chelicerae with 3, retromargin with 4 teeth. Sternum with light median band and 3 pairs of light spots. Palp: Tibia long, cylindrical, 3x longer than wide, ventral rim reaching to longitudinal midpoint. Dorsal apophysis flat, bifid with blunt lateral appendage and pointed, scale-shaped frontal appendage. Lateral apophysis evenly rounded. Cymbium spoon-shaped. Tegular apophysis sickle-shaped. Conductor protruding retrolaterally.

prosoma length: 2.7-2.8 mm, prosoma width: 2.1,2.3 mm.

Body length male: 6.3-6.4 mm
Female

Anterior eye row procurved. Promargin of chelicerae with 3, retromargin with 4 teeth. Sternum with light median band and 3 pairs of light spots. Epigyne: approx. 2.5x wider than long, oval, laterally bordered by shallow ridge. Copulatory ducts adjacent of each other and to the anterior margin.

Body length female: 6.3-6.4 mm
Additional information

Endemic species from North Tyrol, Austria, and Grisons (Switzerland), 900-1500 m

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Switzerland, Austria. Italy
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1987b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler 1987b)

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male Tibia, dorsal view
(Thaler 1987b)

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female Epigyne/vulva
(Thaler 1987b)

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female Epigyne/vulva
(Thaler 1987b)

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) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (no references) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 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 (1987b) Drei bemerkenswerte Grossspinnen der Ostalpen (Arachnida, Aranei: Agelenidae, Thomisidae, Salticidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60: 391-401 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
09-05-2016 Datasheet update Detail