Prinerigone vagans (Audouin, 1826), 1988

Alioua, Youcef & Bosmans, Robert, 2024, Spiders of arid lands: The Ghardaïa region (Northern Sahara) with seven new records for Algeria, Zootaxa 5497 (3), pp. 301-336 : 314

Prinerigone vagans (Audouin, 1826)

Erigone vagans ; Denis 1937b: 1043.

Erigone vagans spinosa ; Denis 1954: 320.

Prinerigone vagans ; Bosmans & Bouragba 1992: 248; Bosmans & Chergui 1994: 356; Bosmans 2007: 137.

Material examined: BERRIANE: Balouh, hand collecting, 1 ♀, 26.II.2021; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 17.IV.2021; 3 ♀, 24.IV.2021, pitfall traps, 2 ♂, 26.II.2021; 1 ♀, 26.III.2021; 1 ♀, 3.IV.2021; 1 ♂, 10.IV.2021. EL GUERRARA: Aghzou, pifall traps, 1 ♂, 22.II.2020. El Amied, pitfall traps, 2 ♂, 22.II.2020.

Previous records in Algeria: Aïn Témouchent, Alger, Annaba, Béchar, Béjaïa, Biskra, Blida, Bouira, Boumerdès, Chlef, Constantine, Djanet, Djelfa, El Bayadh, El Tarf, Guelma, Illizi, Jijel, Laghouat, Médéa, Mila, M’sila, Ouled Djellal, Saïda, Sétif, Skikda, Tamenghasset, Tiaret, Tissemsilt, Tizi Ouzou, Tlemcen ( Denis 1937b; Denis 1954; Bosmans & Bouragba 1992; Bosmans & Chergui 1994; Bosmans 2007)

Distribution: Azores, Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Middle East, Iran, Central Asia, China. Introduced to Marion Islands, Hawaii ( World Spider Catalog 2024).