Cepheia longiseta (Simon, 1881)

Caria, Michele, Pantini, Paolo, Alamanni, Federico, Ancona, Cesare, Cillo, Davide & Bazzato, Erika, 2021, New records and interesting data for the Sardinian spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae), Fragmenta entomologica 53 (2), pp. 321-332 : 328

Cepheia longiseta (Simon, 1881)

Material examined. M2, 18.VII-22.VIII.2018, 1♂ ( MSNB) .

Distribution. Southern Europe.

Comments. The family is here recorded for the first time in Sardinia. Cepheia is a monotypic genus that includes only C. longiseta , a poorly recorded species distributed in southern Portugal, southern Spain, the Balearic Islands, southern France, southern Austria and in northern Italy ( Lopardo & Hormiga 2007). In Italy, it has been recorded only once in Liguria ( Bertkau 1890) and twice in Trentino-Alto Adige ( Thaler & Noflatscher 1990; Lopardo & Hormiga 2007).