Episinus theridioides Simon, 1873

Knoflach, Barbara, Rollard, Christine & Thaler, Konrad, 2009, Notes on Mediterranean Theridiidae (Araneae) – II, ZooKeys 16 (16), pp. 227-264 : 237-238

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.16.237

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3791788

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scientific name

Episinus theridioides Simon, 1873
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Episinus theridioides Simon, 1873 View in CoL

Figs 27-31 View Figures 21-27 View Figures 28-31

Plocamis pyrenaea Simon, 1914: 246 , 291, female, type locality: Pyrénées-Atlantiques ( Bosmans and de Castro 2002).

Material examined. France: Pyrénées-Atlantiques, La Rhune, near St-Jean-de-Luz , 2 ♀ 1 juvenile ( MHNP AR 2182 View Materials ; type material of P. pyrenaea, Simon 1914: 291 ). GoogleMaps Corsica, Haute Asco, 1400-1440 m, 42°23,589’ N, 08°55,349’ E, under stones from scree at forest line, 2 ♀ ( CTh), 12.9.2001, leg. K. Thaler and B. Knoflach [Th-417 Co01/15] GoogleMaps .

Description, identification. Knoflach (1993), Agnarsson et al. (2007), for further citations see Platnick (2008).

Synonymy. The synonymisation of E. pyrenaeus ( Simon, 1914) View in CoL with E. theridioides View in CoL by Bosmans and de Castro (2002) is supported by the present material from the Pyrenees and from Corsica, though only females have been compared. General appearance ( Fig. 27 View Figures 21-27 ), shape of epigynum and overall course of copulatory ducts ( Figs 28-29 View Figures 28-31 ) are not or barely different from E. theridioides View in CoL ( Figs 30-31 View Figures 28-31 ).

Distribution. Episinus theridioides occurs discontinuously in the Mediterranean ( Knoflach and Thaler 2000) and is known only from a few localities in the French and Spanish Pyrenees, Cantabria, Corsica and Sardinia; for a distribution map see Bosmans and de Castro (2002). Unlike members of the E. truncatus -group it appears to be an exclusively epigeic species.

MHNP

Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Perpignan

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Theridiidae

Genus

Episinus

Loc

Episinus theridioides Simon, 1873

Knoflach, Barbara, Rollard, Christine & Thaler, Konrad 2009
2009
Loc

Plocamis pyrenaea Simon, 1914: 246

Simon E 1914: 246
1914
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