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List of arachnids of Ireland

There are approximately 1,107 species of arachnid native to Ireland.[11] Not up to date for all taxa. Arachnids are eight-legged chelicerate arthropods with pedipalps and bodies divided into two tagmata.

Dicranopalpus ramosus, a harvestman found in southern coastal parts of Ireland.[1]
Oligolophus tridens, a harvestman found all over Ireland.[2]
Chelifer cancroides, a pseudoscorpion found in Ireland. The abdomen is short and rounded at the rear, rather than extending into a segmented tail and stinger like a true scorpion, of which there are none in Ireland.[3]
Ixodes ricinus, the castor bean tick, which spreads the pathogens that cause Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis.[1]
Trombidium holosericeum, a red velvet mite that lives in soil and feeds on insects.[4]
Pholcus phalangioides, the skull spider, found in County Kerry.[5]
Egg sac of Ero furcata, a pirate spider found in coastal parts of Ireland.[6]
Female snake-back spider (Segestria senoculata).[7]
European cave spider (Meta menardi), recorded in Kerry.
A female Enoplognatha ovata on a daisy; this spider is found in coastal parts of Ireland, especially in the southeast.[8]
Giant house spider (Eratigena atrica), common in the Midlands.[9]
Clubiona trivialis, a sac spider very common in the Midlands.[10]

The most best known and familiar group in Ireland is the spiders, and there are also several species of harvestman (daddy-long-legs), ticks, mites and pseudoscorpions. Arachnid groups absent from Ireland include true scorpions, whip scorpions, solifuges, cave spiders, microwhip scorpions, hooded tick spiders and tarantulas.

Subclass Dromopoda

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Order Opiliones (harvestmen / daddy-long-legs)

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15 native species and three species which are not considered to be native: Odiella spinosus, Opilio parietinus (Phalangiidae) and Dicranopalpus ramosus (Leiobunidae)

Family Nemastomatidae

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Family Phalangiidae

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Family Sclerosomatidae

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Family Trogulidae

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Order Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions)

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17 species

Family Cheiridiidae

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Family Cheliferidae

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Family Chernetidae

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Family Chthonidae

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Family Chthoniidae

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Family Neobisiidae

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Subclass Acari (ticks and mites)

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At least 684 species

Order Ixodida (ticks)

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Family Ixodidae

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10 species

Family Argasidae (soft ticks)

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2 species

Order Prostigmata (sucking true mites)

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249 species

Family Alycidae

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4 species

Family Arrenuridae

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5 species

Family Bdellidae

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5 species

Family Ereynetidae

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1 species

Family Eriophyidae (gall mites)

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52 species [12]

Family Erythraeidae

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7 species

Family Eupodidae

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2 species

Family Eylaidae

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3 species

Family Halacaridae (marine mites)

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44 species

Family Hydrodromidae

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1 species

Hydrachnidiae

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2 species [13]

Family Hydryphantidae

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2 species

Family Hygrobatidae

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6 species

Family Lebertiidae

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11 species

Family Limnesiidae

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2 species

Family Meyerellidae

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3 species

Family Microtrombidiidae

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4 species

Family Mideidae

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1 species

Family Mideopsidae

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1 species

Family Nanorchestidae

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2 species

Family Oxidae

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1 species

Family Penthaleidae

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2 species

Family Phytoptidae

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2 species

Family Pionidae

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14 species

Family Podothrombiidae

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1 species

Family Rhagidiidae

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4 species

Family Scutacaridae

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1 species

Family Sperchontidae

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7 species

Family Stigmaeidae

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3 species

Family Tanaupodidae

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1 species

Family Tarsonemidae

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14 species

Family Tetranychidae

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6 species

Family Teutoniidae

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1 species

Family Torrenticolidae

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9 species

Family Trombiculidae

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1 species

Family Tydeidae

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15 species

Family Unionicolidae

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6 species

Order Sarcoptiformes (Clade)

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Suborder Oribatida (moss mites / beetle mites)

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173 species have been identified for the Republic of Ireland

Family Achipteriidae

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4 species

Family Adelphacaridae

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1 species

Family Ameronothridae

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7 species

Family Banksinomidae

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1 species

Family Belbidae

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1 species

Family Brachychthoniidae

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19 species

Family Caleremaeidae

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1 species

Family Camisiidae

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6 species

Family Cepheidae

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3 species

Family Cosmochthoniidae

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1 species

Family Euphthiracaridae

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1species

Family Euzetidae

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2 species

Family Hermanniidae

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7 species

Family Hypochthoniidae

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2 species

Family Liodidae

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1 species

Family Malaconothridae

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6 species

Family Mycobatidae

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4 species

Family Nanhermanniidae

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4 species

Family Nothridae

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2 species

Family Perlohmanniidae

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1 species

Family Phthiracaridae

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4 species

Suborder Brachypylina

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Family Carabodidae

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5 species

Family Ceratozetidae

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12 species

Family Chamobatidae

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4 species

Family Ctenobelbidae

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1 species

Family Cymbaeremaeidae

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1 species

Family Damaeidae

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3 species

Family Eremaeidae

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1 species

Family Galumnidae

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2 species

Family Haplozetidae

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1 species

Family Humerobatidae

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1 species

Family Hydrozetidae

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1 species

Family Liacaridae

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4 species

Family Limnozetidae

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2 species

Family Metrioppiidae

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1 species

Family Micreremidae

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1 species

Family Neoliodidae

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1 species

Family Oppiidae

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16 species

Family Oribatellidae

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3 species

Family Oribatulidae

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7 species

Family Passalozetidae

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1 species

Family Phenopelopidae

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8 species

Family Protoribatidae

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1 species

Family Protoribatidae

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1 species

Family Punctoribatidae

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1 species

Family Quadroppiidae

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1 species

Family Scheloribatidae

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2 species

Family Scutoverticidae

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2 species

Family Steganacaridae

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2 species

Family Suctobelbidae

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6 species

Family Tectocepheidae

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1 species

Family Thyrisomidae

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2 species

Family Xenillidae

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1 species

Suborder Astigmatina

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Order Trombidiformes

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Family Limnocharidae

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Family Tarsonemidae (thread-footed mites / white mites)

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  • Some species

Family Trombidiidae (red velvet mites)

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Order Araneae (spiders)

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390 species belonging to 31 families

Family Agelenidae (funnel-web spiders)

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Family Amaurobiidae (tangled nest spiders)

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Family Anyphaenidae

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Family Araneidae (typical orb-weavers)

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Family Atypidae (purseweb spiders)

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Family Cheiracanthiidae

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Family Clubionidae (sac spiders)

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Family Cybaeidae

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Family Dictynidae

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Family Dysderidae (woodlouse hunters)

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Family Gnaphosidae (flat-bellied ground spiders)

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Family Hahniidae (dwarf sheet spiders)

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Family Linyphiidae (sheet weavers)

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Family Liocranidae (Liocranid sac spiders)

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Family Lycosidae (wolf spiders)

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Family Mimetidae (pirate spiders)

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Family Miturgidae

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Family Nesticidae (scaffold web spiders)

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Family Oonopidae (goblin spiders)

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Family Philodromidae (running crab spiders)

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Family Pholcidae (cellar spiders)

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Family Pisauridae (nursery web spiders)

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Family Salticidae (jumping spiders)

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Family Segestriidae (tube-dwelling spiders)

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Family Scytodidae

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Family Sparassidae

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Family Tetragnathidae (long-jawed orb weavers)

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Family Theridiidae (tangle-web spiders)

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Family Theridiosomatidae (ray spiders)

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Family Thomisidae (crab spiders)

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Family Uloboridae (hackled orb weavers)

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See also

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Encyclopedia of Life online has many images via search Dictynoidea Placements

References

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  1. ^ a b "Species Details".
  2. ^ "Species Details".
  3. ^ "Species Details".
  4. ^ "Red Velvet Mite - Red Earth Mite - Trombidium holosericeum".
  5. ^ "Species Details".
  6. ^ "Species Browser".
  7. ^ "Species Details".
  8. ^ "Species Details".
  9. ^ "Species Details".
  10. ^ "Species Details".
  11. ^ Ferriss, S. E., Smith, K. G. and Inskipp, T. P.(editors), 2009 Irish Biodiversity: a taxonomic inventory of fauna. Online here: [1]
  12. ^ O'Connor, J.P., O'Connor, M.A., Ashe, P. & Wistow, S. 1999 A review of the Irish gall-mites (Acari: Eriophydae). Irish Naturalists' Journal 26: 241-248
  13. ^ Gledhill, T. & Viets K.O. (1976) A synonymic and bibliographic check-list of the freshwater mites (Hydrachnellae and Limnohalacaridae, Acari) recorded from Great Britain and Ireland. Freshwater Biological Association of Occasional Publishing, 1, 1–59.

Helsdingen, P.J. van, 1996 A county distribution of Irish spiders, incorporating a revised catalogue of the species Irish Naturalists' Journal Special Issue

Further information

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Identification

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Key works are:-

  • Jones, Dick, 1983 The Country Life Guide to spiders of Britain and Northern Europe Country Life Books/Hamlyn
  • Jones-WaltersL.M., Keys to Families of British Spiders AIDGAP Guide, Field Studies Council No. 197, 1989.
  • Locket, G.H. and Millidge, A.F. British Spiders . Vol I 1951, Vol II 1953 Ray Society of London.
  • Locket, G.H., Millidge, A.F. and Merrett P. British Spiders Vol III 1974 Ray Society of London.
  • Roberts, Michael J., The Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland Vols I, II, 1985, III 1987. Harley Books
  • Roberts, Michael J., 1993 The Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland Compact Edition Harley Books, 1993
  • Roberts, Michael J., 1995 Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe Harper Collins

Peter C. Barnard, 1999 Identifying British insects and arachnids: an annotated bibliography of key works Cambridge University Press ISBN 0 521 63241 2 provides a comprehensive list of identification literature.

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  • Wolfgang Nentwig, Theo Blick, Daniel Gloor, Ambros Hänggi & Christian Kropf Eds. Araneae of Europe Includes Descriptions, family keys, figures (pedipalps, epigyne, vulva, prosoma, eyes etc.), maps, references, image gallery. Search under species as generic placements differ
  • Spinnen-forum.de Comprehensive expert Wiki images, distribution (by species but under genus IE is Ireland, maps, references, descriptions in German
  • British Spiders
  • Biolib taxonomy, images
 
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