Checklist of the Italian spiders

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Checklist of the Italian spiders
(Version April 2016)

by Paolo Pantini and Marco Isaia
in collaboration with Fulvio Gasparo, Harald Hansen and Alessio Trotta
Summary

Introduction .................................................................................... 1
Sources ......................................................................................... 1
The checklist structure ................................................................... 2
Acknowledgements ........................................................................ 3
Literature ....................................................................................... 4
Checklist of the Italian spiders ....................................................... 5
List of omitted taxa ....................................................................... 65
Literature on spiders Italian fauna (chronological order) .............. 72
Literature on spiders Italian fauna (alphabetical order) .............. 121

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Checklist of the Italian spiders
(Version April 2016)
by Paolo Pantini and Marco Isaia
in collaboration with Fulvio Gasparo, Harald Hansen and Alessio Trotta
INTRODUCTION
Knowing the biodiversity of a certain area primarily means understanding the quantity and the quality of the taxa
inhabiting it. Such kind of information represents the basis for all scientific studies focusing on any species
occurring in a specific area. In addition, biodiversity data are essential for nature conservation, fruition and
management.
Thanks to the publication of the Checklist of the Italian species of Animals (Minelli, Ruffo & La Posta, 1993-
1995), Italy is the first country in Europe organizing a national-based faunistic census. Some years later, the
CKMap Project (Ruffo & Stoch, 2005) aimed to quantify and consolidate the knowledge of biodiversity in Italy.
Despite these important research projects, knowledge on Italian biodiversity still remains far from being
complete, in particular when considering Invertebrates (Ruffo & Vigna Taglianti, 2002). Among Invertebrates,
spiders are highly diverse predators, capable of colonizing all terrestrial habitats. Moreover, given their
sensibility to human-induced environmental changes and their strategic position in the food chain, spiders are
particularly important in ecological studies.
In this comprehensive work, we aim at providing an updated framework of the knowledge on the Italian spiders.

SOURCES
The new checklist has been developed in the frame of a wider project aiming to realize a comprehensive
Catalog of the Italian spiders based on all available published scientific information, including data on
biogeography, bibliography and taxonomy of all the spider species occurring in Italy.
Given the lack of a recapitulatory work on the Italian spider fauna, we firstly aim at assembling a complete and
updated bibliography. Data on Italian spiders are scattered in hundreds of scientific papers published through
time that we progressively collected in the frame of our project. For the works published before 1940 we refer
primarily to Bibliographia Araneorum (Bonnet, 1955-1959) and for later works to the "Catalogue of the Araneae
described between 1940 and 1981" (Brignoli, 1983) and to "Advances in spider taxonomy" (Platnick, 1989,
1993, 1998). For recent works, the reference is the online database "World Spider Catalog" (World Spider
Catalog, 2014). Moreover, we integrated the list with information deriving both from the analysis of the
references cited in each paper and from an array of personal communications provided by several estimated
colleagues.
Our Bibliography of Italian spiders includes all of the publications devoted to Italian spiders found in scientific
literature: taxonomical and faunistic works, recapitulatory catalogs, obituaries, biographies of Italian
arachnologists etc. We also included works that are not explicitly referring to the Italian spiders, but reporting
about specimen collected in Italy. We did not include in the bibliography the so-called “grey literature” (bachelor
and phd thesis, congress posters and presentations and technical reports).
All biospeleological works published before 1985 and included in Bringoli’s “Catalog of the Italian cave dwelling
spiders” (Brignoli 1972, 1985) are included in the list. Concerning recent biospeleological papers, we included
all papers published by aracnologists. Other speleological papers published in local journals reporting data on
spiders are being progressively integrated in the list.

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THE CHECKLIST STRUCTURE
We present the species list in alphabetical order to allow faster and easier use. Nomenclature follows "The
World Spider Catalog, Version 17.0" and all the nomenclature acts herein. We excluded nomen nudum and
species inquirendae. Further changes will be integrated in future versions of this list.
In addition to general taxonomical information, for each species we report:
● the Italian chorotype according to Vigna et al. (1992, 1999),
● the presence of the species in Continental Italy (It), Sardinia (Sard) and Sicily (Sic). The archipelagoes
and the minor islands are not specified. In such cases, we refer to the region of local competence in
Continental Italy or to Sardinia or Sicily,
● the indication of restricted distribution ranges. We label with “EI” (endemic Italian) the species whose
range is entirely included within the national borders. An “E” (endemic) indicates those species whose
range falls in Italy but also in neighboring countries.

In some cases, we include comments with detailed information about:
● type locality and distribution of endemic species,
● species cited in out-of-date works, whose presence in Italy needs to be verified,
● rare species or species marginally recorded in Italy,
● alien species,
● species or group of species of difficult identification in relation to problematic taxonomical issues.

In order to avoid the inclusion of doubtful species (incorrectly reported for Italy in relation to misidentifications or
oversights), we omitted several taxa. We report them, together with the reasons for their exclusion, in the
separate list of “Omitted taxa”. In particular, we excluded:
● species inquirendae,
● misidentified species according to literature or after our direct check of the specimens,
● species whose occurrence in Italy is not plausible.

For more information about the distribution of the Italian species, for mistakes or oversights in the list please
contact us at the following addresses:

Paolo Pantini
Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali “E. Caffi”
Piazza Cittadella 10
I-24129 Bergamo
email: [email protected]

Marco Isaia
Lab. di Ecologia - Ecosistemi terrestri
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi
Università di Torino
Via Accademia Albertina, 13 - 10123 Torino
email: [email protected]

The checklist reports about 1633 taxa of specific or sub-specific range, concerning 1620 species, 426 genera
and 54 families (see table). We report 26 subspecies, referring to 13 species.

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Family sp (ssp) Family sp (ssp)
Agelenidae 62 (3) Oecobiidae 4
Amaurobiidae 12 Oonopidae 10
Anapidae 3 Oxyopidae 4 (2)
Anyphaenidae 3 Palpimanidae 1
Araneidae 61 Philodromidae 40
Atypidae 3 Pholcidae 7
Clubionidae 29 Phrurolithidae 6
Ctenizidae 2 Pimoidae 3
Cybaeidae 6 Pisauridae 6
Cyrtaucheniidae 4 Prodidomidae 1
Dictynidae 28 Salticidae 139
Dysderidae 80 (4) Scytodidae 2
Eresidae 5 Segestriidae 5
Eutichuridae 14 Selenopidae 1
Filistatidae 3 Sicariidae 1
Gnaphosidae 156 (6) Sparassidae 5 (2)
Hahniidae 17 Synaphridae 1
Hexatelidae 1 Tetragnathidae 19
Leptonetidae 8 (1) Theraphosidae 1
Linyphiidae 470 Theridiidae 108 (4)
Liocranidae 23 Theridiosomatidae 1
Lycosidae 104 (2) Thomisidae 76 (2)
Mimetidae 6 Titanoecidae 7
Miturgidae 9 Trachelidae 4
Mysmenidae 3 Uloboridae 5
Nemesiidae 21 Zodariidae 20
Nesticidae 7 Zoropsidae 3
Total 1620 (26)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are warmly thankful to all colleagues who participated in this work, providing references and opinions on the
occurrence of many species in Italy. A special thank goes to Arthur Decae, who helped us in resolving many
issues about Italian mygalomorphs. We are grateful to Fulvio Gasparo, for stimulating us in thinking our work
out and for making his great knowledge of the cave dwelling spiders and the Italian Dysderids available to us.
Fulvio also proof readed the list with patience, commented precisely on each of our considerations and choices
and suggested so many improvements. Thank you to Harald Hansen, for his courtesy and for providing without
hesitations his precious knowledge about Italian spiders. Thanks to Alessio Trotta for the valuable help in
providing lost references and for the fruitful information given throughout the years.
A special thank goes to Dr. Monica Leonardi of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, for loans and
consultation of the collections of the Museum. Thanks to Dr. Luca Bartolozzi of the Museo di Storia Naturale di
Firenze and to Dr. Leonardo Latella of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Verona.
We are warmly thankful to Wolfgang Nentwig and collaborators and to Norman Platnick for making available to
us and to all arachnologists their websites “Araneae spiders of Europe” and “The World Spider Catalog”. During
our research, we always keep in mind that the public availability of such amazing resources is an exception,
which is rarely found in other groups.

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LITERATURE
Bonnet P., 1945 - Bibliographia araneorum; analyse methodique de toute la litterature araneologique jusqu‘en
1939. Douladore, Tolouse, 1: 832 pp.
Brignoli P.M. 1972 - Catalogo dei ragni cavernicoli italiani. Quaderni di speleologia. Circolo Speleologico
Romano, 1: 5-211.
Brignoli, P.M. 1983 - A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University
Press, 755 pp.
Brignoli P.M. 1985 - Aggiunte e correzioni al “Catalogo dei ragni cavernicoli italiani”. Memorie del Museo Civico
di Storia Naturale di Verona, 4: 51-64.
Minelli A., Ruffo S., La Posta S. (eds.) 1993- 1995 - Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana. Edizioni
Calderini,Bologna.
Platnick, N. I. 1989 - Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1981-1987: A Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the
Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 673 pp.
Platnick, N. I. 1993 - Advances in spider taxonomy 1988-1991, with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980. The
New York Entomological Society, New York, 846 pp.
Platnick, N. I. 1998 - Advances in spider taxonomy 1992-1995 with redescriptions 1940-1980. New York
Entomological Society, New York, 976 pp.
Ruffo S., Stoch F. (eds.) 2005 - Checklist e distribuzione della fauna italiana. Memorie del Museo Civico di
Storia Naturale di Verona, 2a serie, Sezione Scienze della Vita, 16: 307 pp.
Ruffo S., Vigna Taglianti A. 2002 - Generalità sulla fauna italiana. In: Minelli A., Chemini C., Argano R. & Ruffo
S. (a cura di), La fauna in Italia, Touring Editore, Milano e Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del
Territorio, Roma: 24-28.
Vigna Taglianti A., Audisio P.A., Belfiore C., Biondi M., Bologna M.A., Carpaneto G.M., De Biase A., De Felici
S., Piattella E., Racheli T., Zapparoli M. & Zoia S., 1992 - Riflessioni di gruppo sui corotipi fondamentali della
fauna W-Paleartica ed in particolare italiana. Biogeographia, 16: 159-179.
Vigna Taglianti A., Audisio P.A., Biondi M., Bologna M.A., Carpaneto G.M., De Biase A., Fattorini S., Piattella
E., Sindaco R.,Venchi A. & Zapparoli M., 1999 - A proposal for a chorotype classification of the Near East
fauna in the framework of the Western Paleartic region. Biogeographia, 20: 31-59.

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Checklist of the Italian spiders
1 Agelenidae
1 - 1 Agelena
1 - 1 Agelena agelenoides (Walckenaer, 1842) WEU It - Sic Veneto (di Caporiacco 1934a, 1950c) and Isola di Lampedusa
(Roewer, 1960).
2 - 2 Agelena labyrinthica (Clerck, 1757) PAL It Sard Sic
3 - 3 Agelena orientalis C.L. Koch, 1837 CAE It - - Recorded from Pesarini (1995), sources not available. Trotta
(2005) recalls the record by Pesarini (Trotta 2013 pers. comm.).
The presence in Italy needs confirmation.
2 - 2 Allagelena
4 - 1 Allagelena gracilens (C.L. Koch, 1841) SIE It Sard Sic
3 - 3 Aterigena
EI 5 - 1 Aterigena aliquoi (Brignoli, 1971) SICI - - Sic Loc. typ.: Italy, Sicilia, Palermo, Parco Regionale delle Madonie,
Piano della Battaglia. Distribution: Sicilia.
EI 6 - 2 Aterigena aspromontensis Bolzern, Haenggi & APPS It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Santo Stefano
Burckhardt, 2010 d’Aspromonte, above Gambarie, m 1600. Distribution:
Aspromonte. Never recorded after the original description.
E 7 - 3 Aterigena ligurica (Simon, 1916) ALWA It - - Loc. typ.: France, Alpes-Maritimes, Menton, le Moulinet.
Distribution: from Alpi Marittime to southern Apennines.
E 8 - 4 Aterigena soriculata (Simon, 1873) SACO - Sard - Loc. typ.: not found. Distribution: Corsica. The species was also
reported from Sardinia (Garneri 1902; Kraus 1955). The record
by Garneri (1902:72) was unavailable for study. Material by
Kraus (1955) concerns T. parietina (cf. Bolzern et al. 2008).
4 - 4 Coelotes
E 9 - 1 Coelotes alpinus Polenec, 1972 ALPE It - - Loc. typ.: Slovenia, Koroško-Slovenske Alpe. Distribution:
eastern Alps. Friuli Venezia Giulia (Polenec, 1972, Maurer 1982).
EI 10 - 2 Coelotes italicus Kritscher, 1956 APPE It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Umbria/Marche, Monti Sibillini, Valle del Lago di
Pilato and Forca Viola. Distribution: northern and central
Apennines.
11 - 3 Coelotes mediocris Kulczyński, 1887 EUR It - -
E 12 - 4 Coelotes osellai de Blauwe, 1973 AWNA It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Piemonte, Cuneo, Val Pesio, Rifugio Garelli, m
2000-2300. Distribution: from Alpi Marittime to Alpi Apuane.
E 13 - 5 Coelotes pabulator Simon, 1875 ALPW It - - Loc. typ.: France, different localities in the Préalpes de Savoie,
Alpes du Dauphiné and Alpi Cozie. Distribution: western Alps.
E 14 - 6 Coelotes pickardi pastor Simon, 1875 ALPW It - - Loc. typ.: France, different localities in the Basses-Alpes and
Hautes-Alpes. Distribution: western Alps, from A. Marittime to A.
Graie (Valle di Locana).
E 15 - 7 Coelotes pickardi pickardi O.P.-Cambridge, 1873 ALPW It - - Loc. typ.: Switzerland. Distribution: western Alps, from Valle di
Oropa to Val Sesia and northern to Vallese.
E 16 - 8 Coelotes pickardi tirolensis (Kulczyński, 1906) ALPC It - - Loc. typ.: Alps al confine tra Tirolo, Switzerland and Italy.
Distribution: central Alps and Prealps from Lago di Como to
Prealpi Vicentine.
E 17 - 9 Coelotes poleneci Wiehle, 1964 ALPE It - - Loc. typ.: Slovenia, S-Hänge der Gebirgsgruppe Storzic.
Distribution: Alpi Giulie and Alpi Carinziano-Slovene. Friuli
Venezia Giulia (Hansen, 2011).
E 18 - 10 Coelotes poweri Simon, 1875 ALSW It - - Loc. typ.: France, Alpes-Maritime, St-Martine-de-Lentosque.
Distribution: Alpi Marittime.
E 19 - 11 Coelotes rudolfi (Schenkel, 1925) ALPW It - - Loc. typ.: not found. Distribution: western Alps (from A.
Lepontine to A. Graie).
20 - 12 Coelotes solitarius L. Koch, 1868 CEU It - -
5 - 5 Eratigena
21 - 1 Eratigena agrestis (Walckenaer, 1802) EUR It Sard Sic Introduced into North America in the early 20th century (Bolzern
et al., 2013).
EI 22 - 2 Eratigena arganoi (Brignoli, 1971) APPE It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Lazio, Roma, Altopiano di Arcinazzo, m 800.
Distribution: central and southern Apennines (Campania, Lazio,
Umbria).
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23 - 3 Eratigena atrica (C.L. Koch, 1843) EUR It - - Brignoli (1971: 85) report this species doubtfully, given the
difficulty in the identification. Bolzern et al., 2013 report one male
for Italy. Records of Emilia Romagna, Veneto e Toscana needs
verification.
24 - 4 Eratigena fuesslini (Pavesi, 1873) EUR It - -
EI 25 - 5 Eratigena sardoa Brignoli, 1977 SARD - Sard - Loc. typ.: Italy, Sardegna, Cagliari, dintorni di Asuni. Distribution:
Sardegna.
EI 26 - 6 Eratigena sicana (Brignoli, 1976) TYRR - Sard Sic Loc. typ.: Italy, Sicilia, Palermo, Piana degli Albanesi.
Distribution: Sicilia and Sardegna.
EI 27 - 7 Eratigena vomeroi (Brignoli, 1977) APPS It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Basilicata, Potenza, Lagonegro, Grotta del
Cervaro. Distribution: Basilicata.
6 - 6 Histopona
E 28 - 1 Histopona fioni Bolzern, Pantini & Isaia, 2013 ALPC It - - Loc. typ.: Switzerland, Tessin, Burstogna, Monte San Giorgio, m
950. Distribution: Italy and Switzerland (Ticino). Lombardian
Prealps, from Lago Maggiore to Lago di Garda.
EI 29 - 2 Histopona italica Brignoli, 1977 ALWA It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Lazio, Roma, Colli Albani, Monte Cavo.
Distribution: from Maritime Alps to Aspromonte along the
Apenninic chain.
E 30 - 3 Histopona leonardoi Bolzern, Pantini & Isaia, AWNA It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Piemonte, Cuneo, Acceglio, sorgenti del Maira, m
2013 1680. Distribution: Italy and Switzerland (Tessin). All along the
Western Alps and the Northern Apennine.
EI 31 - 4 Histopona palaeolithica (Brignoli, 1971) ALSW It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Liguria, Savona, Finale Ligure, grotta Arma delle
Arene Candide 34 Li/SV. Distribution: Liguria. Never recorded
after the original description. Uniquely known for the type locality.
32 - 5 Histopona torpida (C.L. Koch, 1837) EUR It - -
7 - 7 Inermocoelotes
33 - 1 Inermocoelotes anoplus (Kulczyński, 1897) SEU It - - Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto.
34 - 2 Inermocoelotes inermis (L. Koch, 1855) SEU It - -
35 - 3 Inermocoelotes microlepidus (de Blauwe, 1973) SEU It - - Distribution: Alpi centrali meridionali (dalla Lombardia al Veneto)
e Balcani (Bulgaria, Macedonia e Albania).
8 - 8 Lycosoides
36 - 1 Lycosoides coarctata (Dufour, 1831) MED It Sard Sic
37 - 2 Lycosoides flavomaculata Lucas, 1846 MED - - Sic
9 - 9 Maimuna
38 - 1 Maimuna vestita (C.L. Koch, 1841) WME It - - Puglia (Trentini et al. 2002: 1013 sub Maumunia [sic!] vestita
(Olivier) [sic!]).
10 - 10 Pireneitega
EI 39 - 1 Pireneitega garibaldii (Kritscher, 1969) APPS It - Sic Loc. typ.: Italy, Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Aspromonte.
Distribution: southern Apennines, Gargano, Monti Nebrodi.
11 - 11 Tegenaria
E 40 - 1 Tegenaria armigera Simon, 1873 SACO - Sard - Loc. typ.: France, Corsica. Distribution: Sardegna and Corsica.
EI 41 - 2 Tegenaria capolongoi Brignoli, 1977 APPS It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Campania, Napoli, San Sebastiano al Vesuvio,
grotticella vesuviana. Distribution: Campania (Vesuvio). Never
recorded after the original description.
EI 42 - 3 Tegenaria circeoensis Bolzern, Burckhardt & APPC It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Lazio, Frosinone, Esperia. Distribution: Lazio
Hänggi, 2013 (Circeo and Monti Aurunci). Never recorded after the original
description.
43 - 4 Tegenaria dalmatica Kulczyński, 1906 TEM It Sard Sic
44 - 5 Tegenaria domestica (Clerck, 1757) COS It Sard Sic
EI 45 - 6 Tegenaria eleonorae Brignoli, 1974 SARD - Sard - Loc. typ.: Italy, Sardegna, Cagliari, Domusnovas, Grotta di San
Giovanni 81 Sa/CA. Distribution: Sardegna.
E 46 - 7 Tegenaria femoralis Simon, 1873 TYRR It - - Loc. typ.: France, Corsica, Corte. Distribution: Corsica, Italy
(Isola di Montecristo). Isola di Montecristo (Brignoli, 1979d).
47 - 8 Tegenaria ferruginea (Panzer, 1804) EUR It - - Distribution: Reported from most European countries. Probably

absent from northernmost Europe (Bolzern et al., 2013).
48 - 9 Tegenaria hasperi (Chyzer, 1897) SEU It - -
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EI 49 - 10 Tegenaria henroti Dresco, 1956 SARD - Sard - Loc. typ.: Italy, Sardegna, Nuoro, Dorgali, Grotta Pisanu 215
Sa/NU. Distribution: Sardegna.
E 50 - 11 Tegenaria mirifica Thaler, 1987 ALPS It - - Loc. typ.: Austria, Nordtirol, Piburger Bach, m 900-1000.
Distribution: central and south-eastern Alps (Bolzern et al. 2013).
Lombardia, Trentino.
51 - 12 Tegenaria pagana C.L. Koch, 1840 SCO It Sard Sic
52 - 13 Tegenaria parietina (Fourcroy, 1785) SCO It Sard Sic
EI 53 - 14 Tegenaria parmenidis Brignoli, 1971 APPS It - Sic Loc. typ.: Italy, Campania, Salerno, Novi Velia. Distribution:
southern Apennines and Sicilia.
E 54 - 15 Tegenaria parvula Thorell, 1875 APPE It - Sic Loc. typ.: Italy, Lazio, Roma, Genazzano. Distribution: from
central to northern Italy and Romania.
EI 55 - 16 Tegenaria sbordonii Brignoli, 1971 APPC It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Lazio, Frosinone, Esperia, Grotta dei Serini 587
La/FR. Distribution: Lazio. Known only for the type locality.
56 - 17 Tegenaria silvestris L. Koch, 1872 EUR It - - From the Alps to the Tusco-emilian Apennine. Roewer (1960)
report this species doubtely from the island of Lampedusa.
E 57 - 18 Tegenaria tridentina L. Koch, 1872 ALP It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Trentino Alto Adige, Trento, Buco di Vela.
Distribution: Alps (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and
Switzerland) (Bolzern et al., 2013).
EI 58 - 19 Tegenaria tyrrhenica de Dalmas, 1922 APPE It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Toscana, Campo nell'Elba, Isola di Pianosa.
Distribution: northern and central Apennines, Arcipelago
Toscano.
12 - 12 Textrix
59 - 1 Textrix caudata L. Koch, 1872 SEU It Sard Sic
60 - 2 Textrix denticulata (Olivier, 1789) EUR It Sard -
61 - 3 Textrix pinicola Simon, 1875 WME It Sard -
EI 62 - 4 Textrix rubrofoliata Pesarini, 1990 SICI - - Sic Loc. typ.: Italy, Sicilia, Messina, Monte Soro. Distribution: Sicilia.
Never recorded after the original description. Uniquely known for
the type locality. Female unknown.
13 - 13 Urocoras
EI 63 - 1 Urocoras matesianus (de Blauwe, 1973) APPS It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Molise, Isernia, Roccamandolfi, Matese, m 840.
Distribution: southern Apennines. Male unknown.
E 64 - 2 Urocoras munieri (Simon, 1880) CADI It - - Loc. typ.: Croatia, Šibenik. Distribution: Italy (Venezia Giulia),
Slovenia and Croazia. Venezia Giulia (Pantini & Isaia, 2008).
2 Amaurobiidae
14 - 1 Amaurobius
E 65 - 1 Amaurobius crassipalpis Canestrini & Pavesi, ALPC It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Trentino; Switzerland, Canton Ticino. Distribution:
1870 southern slope of central Alps (from Canton Ticino to Trentino).
66 - 2 Amaurobius erberi (Keyserling, 1863) EUR It Sard -
67 - 3 Amaurobius fenestralis (Ström, 1768) EUR It Sard Sic
68 - 4 Amaurobius ferox (Walckenaer, 1830) OLA It Sard -
69 - 5 Amaurobius jugorum L. Koch, 1868 SEU It - -
70 - 6 Amaurobius obustus L. Koch, 1868 EUR It - -
71 - 7 Amaurobius pallidus L. Koch, 1868 SEU It - -
EI 72 - 8 Amaurobius pavesii Pesarini, 1991 APPN It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Toscana, Lucca, M. Pania della Croce.
Distribution: northern Apennines. Never recorded after the
original description. Male unknown.
EI 73 - 9 Amaurobius ruffoi Thaler, 1990 ALPE It - - Loc. typ.: Italy, Veneto, Vicenza, Bassano del Grappa, Monte
Grappa, m 1500-1700. Distribution: Prealps, from Lago di Iseo to
al Monte Grappa. The synonymy with Amaurobius sciakyi
Pesarini, 1991 has to be formalized.
E 74 - 10 Amaurobius scopolii Thorell, 1871 AWNA It - - Loc. typ.: France, Nizza and Monaco. Distribution: from western
Alps to northern Apennines.
75 - 11 Amaurobius similis (Blackwall, 1861) OLA It - Sic Alien species (Nentwig, 2015).
15 - 2 Callobius
76 - 1 Callobius claustrarius (Hahn, 1833) SIE It - -
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3 Anapidae
16 - 1 Comaroma
77 - 1 Comaroma simoni Bertkau, 1889 EUR It - -
17 - 2 Zangherella
78 - 1 Zangherella algerica (Simon, 1895) WME It - -
79 - 2 Zangherella apuliae (di Caporiacco, 1949) EME It - - Distribution: Italy (Puglia), Grecia and Anatolia. Puglia. Could be
synonym of Z. relicta (Brignoli, 1968; Deltshev et al., 2011).
4 Anyphaenidae
18 - 1 Anyphaena
80 - 1 Anyphaena accentuata (Walckenaer, 1802) TUE It Sard -
81 - 2 Anyphaena alboirrorata Simon, 1878 EME It - - Puglia (Addante et al., 2003).
82 - 3 Anyphaena sabina L. Koch, 1866 TUE It Sard Sic
5 Araneidae
19 - 1 Aculepeira
83 - 1 Aculepeira armida (Audouin, 1826) ASE It Sard Sic
84 - 2 Aculepeira carbonaria (L. Koch, 1869) PAL It - -
85 - 3 Aculepeira ceropegia (Walckenaer, 1802) PAL It Sard Sic
20 - 2 Agalenatea
86 - 1 Agalenatea redii (Scopoli, 1763) PAL It Sard Sic
21 - 3 Araneus
87 - 1 Araneus alsine (Walckenaer, 1802) PAL It - -
88 - 2 Araneus angulatus Clerck, 1757 PAL It - Sic
89 - 3 Araneus circe (Audouin, 1826) EUR It - Sic
90 - 4 Araneus diadematus Clerck, 1757 OLA It Sard Sic
91 - 5 Araneus grossus (C.L. Koch, 1844) SIE It - -
92 - 6 Araneus marmoreus Clerck, 1757 OLA It Sard Sic
93 - 7 Araneus nordmanni (Thorell, 1870) OLA It - - Alto Adige.
94 - 8 Araneus quadratus Clerck, 1757 PAL It Sard -
95 - 9 Araneus saevus (L. Koch, 1872) OLA It - - Alto Adige.
96 - 10 Araneus sturmi (Hahn, 1831) PAL It - -
97 - 11 Araneus triguttatus (Fabricius, 1793) ASE It - -
22 - 4 Araniella
98 - 1 Araniella alpica (L. Koch, 1869) EUR It Sard -
99 - 2 Araniella cucurbitina (Clerck, 1757) PAL It Sard Sic
100 - 3 Araniella displicata (Hentz, 1847) OLA It - - Piemonte (Korenko et al., 2013).
101 - 4 Araniella inconspicua (Simon, 1874) PAL It - Sic
102 - 5 Araniella opisthographa (Kulczyński, 1905) TUE It - -
23 - 5 Argiope
103 - 1 Argiope bruennichi (Scopoli, 1772) PAL It Sard Sic
104 - 2 Argiope lobata (Pallas, 1772) PAL It Sard Sic
105 - 3 Argiope trifasciata (Forskål, 1775) Introduced - Sard Sic Distribution: Subcosmopolitan. Alien species.
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