Notes on Mediterranean Theridiidae (Araneae) – II Author Knoflach, Barbara University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck ,, Austria Author Rollard, Christine Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris ,, France Author Thaler, Konrad Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck ,, France text ZooKeys 2009 2009-07-29 16 16 227 264 journal article 22716 10.3897/zookeys.16.237 6183f557-d88b-466e-81ea-549149b529cb 1313–2970 576484 Episinus theridioides Simon, 1873 Figs 27-31 Plocamis pyrenaea Simon, 1914: 246 , 291, female, type locality: Pyrénées-Atlantiques ( Bosmans and de Castro 2002 ). Material examined. France : Pyrénées-Atlantiques , La Rhune , near St-Jean-de-Luz , 2 ♀ 1 juvenile ( MHNP AR 2182 ; type material of P. pyrenaea, Simon 1914: 291 ). Corsica , Haute Asco , 1400-1440 m , 42°23,589’ N , 08°55,349’ E , under stones from scree at forest line , 2 ♀ ( CTh ), 12.9.2001 , leg. K. Thaler and B. Knoflach [Th-417 Co01/15] . Description , identification. Knoflach (1993) , Agnarsson et al. (2007) , for further citations see Platnick (2008) . Synonymy . The synonymisation of E. pyrenaeus ( Simon, 1914 ) with E. theridioides by Bosmans and de Castro (2002) is supported by the present material from the Pyrenees and from Corsica , though only females have been compared. General appearance ( Fig. 27 ), shape of epigynum and overall course of copulatory ducts ( Figs 28-29 ) are not or barely different from E. theridioides ( Figs 30-31 ). Figures 28-31. Episinus theridioides Simon from France , La Rhune ( 28-29 ; E. pyrenaeus AR 2182) and Corsica ( 30-3 1 ). Epigynum/vulva, ventral ( 28 , 30 ), dorsal view ( 29 , 3 1 ). All figures drawn at same scale. Scale line: 0.20 mm . Distribution . Episinus theridioides occurs discontinuously in the Mediterranean ( Knoflach and Thaler 2000 ) and is known only from a few localities in the French and Spanish Pyrenees, Cantabria, Corsica and Sardinia; for a distribution map see Bosmans and de Castro (2002) . Unlike members of the E. truncatus -group it appears to be an exclusively epigeic species.