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Dipoena torva

Description

Dipoena torva (Thorell, 1875)

MATERIAL. — Col Alaris, alpine pastures, 1724 m, 01.VII.2017, Isaia, Mammola & Milano leg., 1 ♂, coll. MI.

CHOROTYPE. — OLA.

MACROHABITAT. — Alpine pastures.

NOTE. — This is a relatively rare species (Nentwig et al. 2018). It appears to be an arboreal species with a distinct habitat on pine and oak trunks, even though were found occasionally in the understorey (Simon 1997). D. torva is a specialist ant predator.

Notes

Published as part of Milano, Filippo, Mammola, Stefano, Rollard, Christine, Leccia, Marie-France & Isaia, Marco, 2019, An inventory of the spider species of Barcelonnette (France), with taxonomic notes on Piniphantes agnellus n. comb. (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 29-58 in Zoosystema 41 (4) on page 48, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a4, http://zenodo.org/record/3718482

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MATERIAL
Event date
2017-07-01
Verbatim event date
2017-07-01
Scientific name authorship
Thorell
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Theridiidae
Genus
Dipoena
Species
torva
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dipoena torva (Thorell, 1875) sec. Milano, Mammola, Rollard, Leccia & Isaia, 2019

References

  • NENTWIG W., BLICK T., GLOOR D., HANGGI A. & KROPF C. 2018. - Spiders of Europe. Version 05.2018. https: // doi. org / 10.24436 / 1
  • SIMON U. 1997. - On the biology of Dipoena torva (Araneae: Theridiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 13: 29 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.5431 / aramit 1303