Family: Mimetidae Simon, 1881 | key
Genus: Ero C. L. Koch, 1837 | key
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    WSC: Species ext
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    Ero flammeola Simon, 1881      [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:005674]
    Description male

    Palp male: tibia approximately 3.5 times as long as wide. Cymbium oval, flat, retrolaterally with small tooth. Conductor with prolateral furrow. Paracymbium broad, semicircular, with low hump. Prosoma brown-red, with a dark border wider backwards. Prosoma 1.6 mm long. Sternum brown-red. Legs brown-red, annulated. Opisthosomal tubercles very flat.

    Body length male: 2.6 mm

    Description female

    Epigyne forms a round tubercle, copulatory opening slit-shaped anteriorly. Vulva with diverging entrance ducts, ending in large, round receptacula. Prosoma with a wide dark border, and a simple median dark line on the thoracic part. Anterior eyes equal or the medians a little smaller. Opisthosoma with 2 obtuse tubercles.

    Body length female: 2.25-3.5 mm

    Additional information

    In Mediterranean area.

    Distribution
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    Global distribution (Platnick 2013): Portugal to Corfu, Canary Is.
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    References

    Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mém Soc Linn Lyon 2: 1-522.

    Platnick N I (2013) The world spider catalog, version 13.5. American Museum of Natural History, online at http://research.amnh.org/iz/spiders/catalog. DOI: 10.5531/db.iz.0001

    Thaler K, van Harten A, Knoflach B (2004) Pirate spiders of the genus Ero C.L. Koch from southern Europe, Yemen, and Ivory Coast, with two new species (Arachnida, Araneae, Mimetidae). Denisia 13: 359-368.

    van Helsdingen P J (2010) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org