World Spider Catalog

Genus: Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 | Family: Dysderidae C. L. Koch, 1837

Harpactea coccifera Brignoli, 1984

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004626

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004626

Described:

Provide ZooBank ID

Distribution: Kosovo, North Macedonia, Greece (Crete)

External Resources*: araneae - Spiders of Europe | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO 25460, 25530) - (Brignoli, 1984b)
Paratype: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona (MCSNV), Italy 1m (Brignoli 517) - (Ballarin, Salmaso & Latella, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Harpactea coccifera Brignoli, 1984b: 283, f. 1-3 (Dm) Original description

Harpactea coccifera Chatzaki & Arnedo, 2006: 14, f. 13-20 (m, Df)

Harpactea coccifera Le Peru, 2011: 266, f. 392 (mf)

Harpactea cf. coccifera Geci et al., 2026b: 5, f. 5A-H (m)

References

Brignoli, P. M. (1984b). Ragni di Grecia XII. Nuovi dati su varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 91(2): 281-321. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.81881 -- Show included taxa

Chatzaki, M. & Arnedo, M. A. (2006). Taxonomic revision of the epigean representatives of the spider subfamily Harpacteinae (Araneae: Dysderidae) on the island of Crete. Zootaxa 1169: 1-32. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1169.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Geci, D., Hoerrmann, T., Ibrahimi, H., Bilalli, A., Musliu, M., Grapci-Kotori, L. & Sherwood, D. (2026b). Forty new faunistic records of spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae) for the Republic of Kosovo. Animals 16(17, 2748): 1-42. doi: 10.3390/ani16172748 ZooBank: 62B0701B-457D-4692-81CE-34523348DD2D -- Show included taxa

Le Peru, B. (2011). The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2026-09-02	Species distribution update	Geci et al., 2026b	Old value
2026-09-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Geci et al., 2026b