Dysdera pumila Thorell, 1873

Hernández-Corral, Jesús, 2017, The spider family Dysderidae in the Balearic Islands, Zootaxa 4329 (4), pp. 375-391 : 384

Dysdera pumila Thorell, 1873

Dysdera pumila Thorell, 1873: 580 (descr. ♂).

Type material. Holotype ♂ of Dysdera pumila from Spain, Formentera , not examined, repository unknown.

Comments. In 1873, Thorell described a very small Dysdera (only five mm) as D. pumila from the small Balearic Island Formentera. The type specimen could not be found in any collection, nor in the Swedish Museum of Natural History (T. Kronestedt, pers. comm.). In his description, partly in English, partly in Latin, Thorell (1873) states that it is a species “… which in the form of the bulbus genitalis of the male greatly resembles D. cambridgii ”. In the World spider catalogue (2017), Dysdera cambridgii Thorell, 1873 is considered a synonym of D. erythrina (Walckenaer, 1802) .

Simon (1914) proposed (with a question mark) that Dysdera pumila is a synonym of Dysdera erythrina fervida Simon, 1882 . The status of this subspecies, otherwise known from the French Provence and Corsica, is unclear and needs revision.

No specimens of Dysdera erythrina or related species were collected by us, and hence Dysdera pumila is provisionally considered a species inquirenda.