Distribution and geographic variation pf Comaroma simonii Bertkau, 1889 (Arachnidae, Araneae, Anapidae)

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Kropf, C. (1998): Distribution and geographic variation pf Comaroma simonii Bertkau, 1889 (Arachnidae, Araneae, Anapidae). Biosystematics and Ecology Series 14: 315-331, URL: http://antbase.org/ants/publications/Kropf1998/Kropf1998.pdfAbstract: The Central European anapid, Comaroma simonii Bertkau, shows a disjunct distribution area. The main area is situated in Austria and Slovenia. A second, northwestern population occurs in Belgium, the Netherlands, western Germany and western Switzerland. In addition, isolated findings are known from Bohemia, Slovakia, northern and central Italy and Montenegro. The few north-western specimens known up till now, differ morphologically from those of the main area by the number of eyes, the structure of female copulatory organs and by their female biased sex ratio. Specimens from Montenegro differ from all other populations in body colouration and in the number of chemosensitive hairs on tibia IV. The data indicate that specimens from the north-western area represent a separate, morphologically differentiated population as compared to specimens from the main area. However, the morphological data reveal no species differentiation between populations of C. simonii at present. Because of poor faunistic knowledge about the Balkan peninsula, it cannot be decided if this is also true for specimens from Montenegro.