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Genus: Mastigusa Menge, 1854 | Family: Cybaeidae Banks, 1892

Mastigusa macrophthalma (Kulczyński, 1897)

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Described:

Distribution: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria

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Syntype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland 1m 2f (ARA035123) - (Castellucci, Luchetti & Scharff, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Tuberta arietina macrophthalma Kulczyński in Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1897: 156, pl. 6, f. 21 (Dmf) Original description

Tuberta arietina macrophthalma Gerhardt, 1921: 98, f. 9 (m)

Tetrilus macrophthalmus Simon, 1937: 1023, 1044 (elevated from subspecies, S of Tetrilus recisus; rejected by Castellucci, Luchetti & Scharff, 2024: 16)

Tetrilus macrophthalmus Loksa, 1969: 114, f. 77C-E (mf)

Mastigusa macrophthalma Wunderlich, 1986: 70, f. 75, 88-90 (mf, T from Tuberta)

Mastigusa macrophthalma Castellucci, Luchetti & Scharff, 2024: 20, f. 2e, 8b, 12c, 16a-e, 17a-b (mf)

Mastigusa macrophthalma Indzhov et al., 2025: 584, f. 3, 8- 9, 12, 19-21 (mf)

References

Castellucci, F., Luchetti, A. & Scharff, N. (2024). Enigmatic and extravagant genitalia in the spider genus Mastigusa (Araneae, Cybaeidae) – a taxonomical revision. Invertebrate Systematics 38(3, IS23047): 1-27. doi: 10.1071/IS23047 -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1897). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae Budapest, pp. 147-366, Pl. VI-X. -- Show included taxa

Gerhardt, U. (1921). Vergleichende Studien über die Morphologie des männlichen Tasters und die Biologie der Kopulation der Spinnen. Versuch einer zusammenfassenden Darstellung auf Grund eigener Beobachtungen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 87A(4): 78-247, pl. 1-3. -- Show included taxa

Indzhov, S., Haynadzhieva, V., Střeštík, V., Dimitrov, Dr. & Dimitrov, Di. (2025). We have two of them: a review of the genus Mastigusa (Araneae: Cybaeidae) in Bulgaria. Zootaxa 5711(4): 579-588. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5711.4.7 -- Show included taxa

Loksa, I. (1969). Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1937). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 5e et derniére partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 979-1298. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1986). Spinnenfauna gestern und heute: Fossile Spinnen in Bernstein und ihre heute lebenden Verwandten. Quelle & Meyer, Wiesbaden, 283 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-10-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Indzhov et al., 2025
2025-10-21	Species distribution update	Indzhov et al., 2025	Old value
2024-03-29	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2024-03-29	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mastigusa arietina (Thorell, 1871)
2024-03-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Castellucci, Luchetti & Scharff, 2024
2024-03-29	Species distribution update	Castellucci, Luchetti & Scharff, 2024	Old value
2024-03-29	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mastigusa arietina (Thorell, 1871)
2023-12-13	Species distribution update	Seropian et al., 2023	Old value
2021-09-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Gerhardt, 1921