Family: Oonopidae Simon, 1890 | key
Genus: Tapinesthis Simon, 1914 | key
    Taxonomy
    WSC: Family ext
    WSC: Species ext
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    Tapinesthis inermis (Simon, 1882)      [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:005189]
    Description male

    Palp: tibia short and bulging, bulb pear-shaped, longer than broad, embolus curved at the top. Prosoma 0.75 mm long. Prosoma horn-yellow, shining through whitish, radial stripes and margin darker. Opisthosoma whitish grey, dorsally darker pigmented. Characters as in female.

     

    Body length male: 1.8 mm

    Description female

    Prosoma 0.8 mm long. Eyes: ocular area pigmented with black, ALE one diameter apart, posterior row recurved. Labium as long as wide, almost square. All legs without spines.

    Body length female: 2.4-2.5 mm

    Additional information

    In buildings, forests, garrigue and dry grasslands. 2 forms of this species are described, one in early spring and the other at the end of summer. The spring form is more coloured, and cuticula almost hairless, the summer form is pale, and legs and opisthosoma hairy.

    Distribution
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    Global distribution (Platnick 2013): Europe (USA, introduced)

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    References

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

    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

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