Mysmenidae  Petrunkevitch, 1928 / Mysmena  Simon, 1894   3 species

Mysmena leucoplagiata  (Simon, 1880)

Description
Male

Prosoma olive-brown, 0.36 mm long. Sternum unpigmented. Clypeus high, concave. Legs darkly annulated, coxae unpigmented. Metatarsus I: with thorn. Opisthosoma oblique oval, markedly higher than long, but without tubercle.

Body length male: 0.8 mm
Female

Epigyne with long scapus. Prosoma 0.4 mm long. Sternum a little longer than wide. Eyes: AME one diameter apart, almost contiguous to ALE, PME scarcely closer to each other than to PLE. Clypeus concave. Chelicerae: anterior margin with 3 teeth, posterior margin with one tooth. Opisthosoma brown, dorsally with 3 pairs of white blotches, lighter below and behind.

Body length female: 1.2 mm
Additional information

In dry litter, between branches, under stones, in oak, chestnut and pine forests. This species builds a small orb web.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Southern Europe to Azerbaijan, Israel
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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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Armenia   (Zarikian et al., 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Marusik & Kunt, 2011) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Kraus O (1967a) Tapinesthis inermis, eine für Deutschland neue Oonopide (Arachnida: Araneae: Oonopidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 48: 381-385 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Loksa I (1973) On the morpholgy and systematical position of Mysmena leucoplagiata (Simon, 1879) (Araneae: Symphytognathidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 19: 283-287 pdf

Marusik Y M, Kunt K B (2011) Spiders (Aranei) new to the fauna of Turkey. 9. Two new family records (Mysmenidae and Synaphridae) and one species record of Mimetidae. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 7: 3-5 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Wunderlich J (1980d) Über europäische Symphytognathidae (Arach.: Araneae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 23: 259-273 pdf

Zarikian N A, Propistsova E A, Marusik Y M (2022) On spider families (Arachnida: Araneae) new to Armenia. Israel Journal of Entomology 51: 103-117 pdf

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