Tetragnatha nigrita Lendl, 1886
Description
Conductor with spoon-shaped tip. Epigyne with almost parallel lateral margins of epigynal plate. Vulva with equally large receptacula seminis. Prosoma dark brown to almost black. Chelicerae dark brown, basally with distinct tubercle. Legs dark brown. Opisthosoma dark brown to almost black, vague folium laterally flanked with silver-white, medially also with silver spots.
Body length male: 6-8 mmBody length female: 7-11 mm
Additional information
On trees and bushes in damp woodland, often near water
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Wiehle 1963a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Roberts 1998)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wiehle 1963a)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Tip of pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Embolus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Tip of conductor
(Tullgren 1947)
Tip of conductor
(Wiehle 1963a)
Tip of conductor, prolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Tip of conductor, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Conductor, retrolateral view
(Morano 2020)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Chelicerae, dorsal view
(Tullgren 1947)
Chelicerae, prolateral view
(Tullgren 1947)
Chelicerae, dorsal view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Chelicera, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Chelicera, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Chelicera, prolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Chelicera, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Chelicera, dorsal view
(Morano 2020)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1998)
Epigyne
(Tullgren 1947)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1963a)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Morano 2020)
Vulva
(Roberts 1998)
Vulva
(Tullgren 1947)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1963a)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1963a)
Vulva
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva, variation
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Morano 2020)
Chelicerae, dorsal view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Chelicera, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Chelicera, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Distribution List
"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.
References
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) 
Blick T (2018) A small collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the River Vjosa, Albania – with an updated spider checklist of Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 213-232
Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147
Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152
Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144
Grbac I, Katušić L, Lukić M (2019) Catalogue of spiders (Araneae) deposited in the Croatian Natural History Museum. Natura Croatica 28: 185-269
Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311
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Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]
Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Lissner J (2016c) A small study of the Corsican spider and pseudoscorpion fauna (Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones). Nieuwsbrief SPINED 36: 5-15
Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp.
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Morano E (2020) La familia Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866 (Araneae) en el área ibero-balear. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 37: 101-136
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.
Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html
Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
Tullgren A (1947) Bidrag till kännedomen om den svenska spindelfaunan. II. Entomologisk Tidskrift 68: 129-154
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Vrenozi B (2012) A collection of spiders (Araneae) in Albanian coastal areas. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 41-46
Wiehle H (1963a) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, XII. Tetragnathidae-Streckspinnen und Dickkiefer. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 49: 1-76
WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2
Zarikian N A, Kalashian M Y (2021) An annotated checklist of spiders deposited in the Arachnida collection of the Institute of Zoology, Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology of the NAS RA, Yerevan, Armenia. Part I. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 61: 11-19
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