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Rhode testudinea Pesarini 1984

  • 1. Ente di gestione delle aree protette delle Alpi Cozie, Via Fransuà Fontan, 1 - 10050 Salbertrand, TO (Italy)
  • 2. Department of Life Sciences and System Biology, University of Turin, Via Accademia Albertina, 13 - 10123 Turin, TO (Italy) marco. isaia @ unito. it (corresponding author)

Description

Rhode testudinea Pesarini, 1984

(Figs 10-12)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Italia. Italy, Piemonte • 1♀, 1juv.; San Damiano Macra (CN), 2009, Coll. MI, Rosso leg.; Coll. MI • 1♂; Pragelato (TO): Villardamont; 2010 m; VII.2011; D. Chamberlain leg.; Coll. MI.

Orsiera Rocciavrè Natural Park 1♀; Coazze: below Colle della Roussa (Sangone Valley – SaC), meadow; 1800 m; 21.IX.2018; Coll. MI • 1♀; 25.VI.2018; Coll. MI • 1♂; lower Sellery ridge (Sangone Valley – SaB), meadow; 1600 m; 18.VII.2019; Coll. MI • 1♂; 25.VII.2018; Coll. MI.

DISTRIBUTION. — Italy.

CHOROTYPE. — ALSW.

ELEVATIONAL ZONATION. — Montane; subalpine.

NOTES. — Italian endemic species (Pantini & Isaia 2019, accessed on Dec. 2024). Two unpublished occurrences from outside the protected areas considered in this work are also added to the material. The new records significantly widen the known distribution range of the species (Fig. 10), which was previously uniquely known for the type locality.

Notes

Published as part of Barbara, Marco Tolve, Andrea, Barbara Rizzioli, Marco, Andrea Pane & Isaia, Marco, 2026, Spiders of the Orsiera Rocciavrè Natural Park and Foresto Ravine Natural Reserve (NW Italy): a faunistic synthesis with data from the " Biodiversity Monitoring Project ", pp. 139-195 in Zoosystema 48 (6) on page 151, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2026v48a6, http://zenodo.org/record/19114341

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MI
Event date
2018-06-25 , 2018-07-25 , 2018-09-21 , 2019-07-18
Verbatim event date
2018-06-25 , 2018-07-25 , 2018-09-21 , 2019-07-18
Scientific name authorship
Pesarini
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Dysderidae
Genus
Rhode
Species
testudinea
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rhode testudinea Pesarini, 1984 sec. Barbara, Andrea, Marco & Isaia, 2026

References

  • PANTINI P. & ISAIA M. 2019. - Araneae. it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta entomologica 51 (2): 127-152. https://doi.org/10.13133/2284-4880/374