Gongylidiellum murcidum Simon, 1884

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 : 325-326

Gongylidiellum murcidum Simon, 1884

Material examined. M5, 03.XII-8.I.2019, 1♂ ( MSNB) .

Distribution. Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Iran, Turkmenistan, Japan.

Comments. The genus is here recorded for the first time in Sardinia. G. murcidium is linked to places with high levels of humidity ( Nentwig et al. 2021). Indeed, the environment where we collected the specimen is characterized by a superficial aquifer allowing the formation of temporary ponds in rainy months.

Distribution. Spain, France, Algeria, Tunisia. Comments. The genus is here recorded for the first time in Italy. The prosoma of the male is illustrated in Fig. 4.