Ozyptila pauxilla (Simon, 1870)

Barrientos, Jose A., Prieto, Carlos E., Pina, Silvia, Henriques, Sergio S, Sousa, Pedro, Schindler, Stefan, Reino, Luis, Beja, Pedro & Santana, Joana, 2023, Arachnid Fauna (Araneae and Opiliones) from the Castro Verde Special Protection Area, southern Portugal, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 110415-110415 : 110415

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e110415

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scientific name

Ozyptila pauxilla (Simon, 1870)
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Distribution

The general data place it in all the countries of the western Mediterranean (Europe and North Africa). We therefore assume that this is a common species in the Iberian Peninsula, with a wider distribution than currently known. This species, previously cited from the District of Beja ( Bacelar 1940, Cardoso 2004), had not been mentioned from the Castro Verde study area. Like other Ozyptila Simon, 1864, it lives a cryptic life, linked to dry and stony soils; perhaps for this reason, it has been cited from few places in the Iberian Peninsula ( de Biurrun et al. 2019).

Notes

70♂♂, 40♀♀, 52 jj.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Thomisidae

Genus

Ozyptila