Euryopis dentigera Simon, 1880

Fusco, Tommaso, Fattorini, Simone, Fortini, Lorenzo, Ruzzier, Enrico & Di Giulio, Andrea, 2024, Ground spiders (Chelicerata, Araneae) of an urban green space: intensive sampling in a protected area of Rome (Italy) reveals a high diversity and new records to the Italian territory, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 122896-e 122896 : e122896-

Euryopis dentigera Simon, 1880

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Fattorini S., Di Giulio A.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 63A7E7BF-004E-5384-931D-709128BBEA67; Taxon: scientificName: Euryopis dentigera Simon, 1880 ; order: Araneae ; family: Theridiidae ; genus: Euryopis ; Location: country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Rome; county: Rome; municipality: Rome; locality: Appia Antica Regional Park, Rome ; locationRemarks: Cava Fiorucci; decimalLatitude: 41.834106; decimalLongitude: 12.549264; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Tommaso Fusco; dateIdentified: 2022; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall traps; eventDate: 2014-06 - 13; Record Level: collectionID: Roma 3 _ 5.8

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Fattorini S., Di Giulio A.; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: F726E99A-33CC-5F93-9311-AC9A48DF79BC; Taxon: scientificName: Euryopis episinoides (Walckenaer, 1847) ; order: Araneae ; family: Theridiidae ; genus: Euryopis ; Location: country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Rome; county: Rome; municipality: Rome; locality: Appia Antica Regional Park, Rome ; locationRemarks: Casal Verbeni; decimalLatitude: 41.815250; decimalLongitude: 12.552222; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Tommaso Fusco; dateIdentified: 2022; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall traps; eventDate: 2014-05 - 26; Record Level: collectionID: Roma 3 _ 5.8

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Fattorini S., Di Giulio A.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: FFFCE429-FC1F-57A6-9C35-718FABE45E5E; Taxon: scientificName: Euryopis episinoides (Walckenaer, 1847) ; order: Araneae ; family: Theridiidae ; genus: Euryopis ; Location: country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Rome; county: Rome; municipality: Rome; locality: Appia Antica Regional Park, Rome ; locationRemarks: Farnesiana; decimalLatitude: 41.839667; decimalLongitude: 12.525528; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Tommaso Fusco; dateIdentified: 2022; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall traps; eventDate: 2013-10 - 31; Record Level: collectionID: Roma 3 _ 5.8

Distribution

Small and rare spider only found in some localities in Europe. European (EUR) chorotype.

Notes

Habitus and epigyne in Figs 10, 11 . Although a single female of this species was found, the epigyne matches that of E. dentigera illustrated by Oger (2024) and descibed by Kulczyński (1898).

Figures

Figure 11. Euryopis dentigera, epigyne. Specimen collected in a protected green space in urban Rome, Italy (the Appia Antica Regional Park).