Pelecopsis digitulus Bosmans & Abrous, 1992

Fusco, Tommaso, Fattorini, Simone, Fortini, Lorenzo, Ruzzier, Enrico & Di Giulio, Andrea, 2024, Ground spiders (Chelicerata, Araneae) of an urban green space: intensive sampling in a protected area of Rome (Italy) reveals a high diversity and new records to the Italian territory, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 122896-e 122896 : e122896-

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/BDJ.12.e122896
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13800384
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scientific name	Pelecopsis digitulus Bosmans & Abrous, 1992
status

Treatment

Pelecopsis digitulus Bosmans & Abrous, 1992 View in CoL

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Fattorini S., Di Giulio A.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: D6240784-F008-517C-8F3C-84500C0FA691; Taxon: scientificName: Pelecopsis digitulus Bosmans & Abrous, 1992 ; order: Araneae ; family: Linyphiidae ; genus: Pelecopsis ; Location: country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Rome; county: Rome; municipality: Rome; locality: Appia Antica Regional Park, Rome ; locationRemarks: Caffarella Nord; decimalLatitude: 41.867753; decimalLongitude: 12.512414; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Identification: identifiedBy: Tommaso Fusco; dateIdentified: 2022; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall traps; eventDate: 2013-11 - 29; Record Level: collectionID: Roma 3 _ 5.8

Distribution

Algeria ( Bosmans and Abrous 1992), Corsica ( Lissner 2016), Italy. W-Mediterranean (WME) chorotype.

Notes

New record for Italy (Figs 7, 8 View Figure 8 ). Although only a single female of this species was found, the epigyne matches that of E. dentigera illustrated by Oger (2024) and described by Bosmans and Abrous (1992). The presence of this species in Italy is further confirmed by its occurrence in Umbria and Apulia (Umbria, Perugia, Castiglione del Lago, Isola Polvese 300 m alt., 8. V. 2013, P. Salerno leg., 1 male; Apulia, Bari, Andria, Castel del Monte 500 m alt., 4. I- 2. II. 2005 R. Addante leg., 1 male; Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali " Enrico Caffi ", Bergamo; Paolo Pantini, personal communication).