On November 15th 2018 Jos A. Massard and Gaby Geimer discovered a female of the wandering cribellate spider Zoropsis spinimana on the window of a pastry shop in Echternach (Massard & Geimer 2018). This spider is a new species for Luxembourg and is currently spreading throughout Europe. The detailed up-to-date distribution of the species can be found on the Luxembourgian Wikipedia (Wikipedia-Bearbeiter 2018).

The home of Zoropsis spinimana is the western Mediterranean region up to the southern edge of the Alps and Dalmatia, as well as North Africa, where it occurs in the open in light forests, under stones and bark, or in and around buildings (Wikipedia contributors 2018).

References

• Massard JA & G Geimer, 2018. Kräuseljagdspinne in Echternach entdeckt – Keine Gefahr für den Menschen. Lëtzebuerger Journal 18.11.2018: 18. [online edition: journal.lu, 16.11.2018]
• Wikipedia-Bearbeiter, ‘Zoropsis spinimana’, Wikipedia, Déi fräi Enzyklopedie, 19. November 2018, 08:23 UTC, <https://lb.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zoropsis_spinimana&oldid=2141458> [abgerufen am 20. November 2018]
• Wikipedia contributors, ‘Zoropsis spinimana‘, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 29 April 2018, 11:30 UTC, <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zoropsis_spinimana&oldid=838803552> [accessed 20 November 2018]