Euryopis cfr sexalbomaculata (Lucas, 1846)

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 cfr sexalbomaculata (Lucas, 1846)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Fattorini S., Di Giulio A.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 8DEB554E-419F-57A7-8568-9F44E452B830; Taxon: scientificName: Euryopis sexalbomaculata (Lucas, 1846) ; order: Araneae ; family: Theridiidae ; genus: Euryopis ; Location: country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Rome; county: Rome; municipality: Rome; locality: Appia Antica Regional Park, Rome ; locationRemarks: Torre Selce; decimalLatitude: 41.816611; decimalLongitude: 12.560667; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Tommaso Fusco; dateIdentified: 2022; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall traps; eventDate: 2014-06 - 13; Record Level: collectionID: Roma 3 _ 5.8

Distribution

Mediterranean, Ukraine, Caucasus, Iran. Turano-Mediterranean (TUM) chorotype.

Notes

Habitus and epigyne in Figs 12, 13 . A single female of this species was found. The epigyne resembles that of E. sexalbomaculata illustrated by Oger (2024) and by Levy and Amitai (1981). A male specimen is needed to confirm this species.

Figures

Figure 13. Euryopis cfr sexalbomaculata, epigyne. Specimen collected in a protected green space in urban Rome, Italy (the Appia Antica Regional Park).