Bassaniodes bliteus (Simon, 1875)

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

Bassaniodes bliteus (Simon, 1875)

Distribution

Data on B. bliteus are available from several countries bordering the western Mediterranean. Although we still have few data, we can consider it a common species throughout the Iberian Peninsula. It has already been recorded in the District of Beja ( Cardoso 2004) and in the Castro Verde area ( Silva 2004). It is one of the smallest species of the genus; it is closely linked to the ground, where it goes unnoticed thanks to its cryptic colouring and its defensive staticity.

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The morphological characters of this species have made it fluctuate between several genera ( Xysticus C. L. Koch, 1835, Ozyptila Simon, 1864 and Bassaniodes Pocock, 1903).