araneae - Asagena phalerata

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Asagena phalerata (Panzer, 1801)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008101

Description

Embolus very long. Epigyne with ± circular groove, its anterior margin with backwardly directed process. Prosoma black-brown, strongly wrinkled. Sternum black-brown, strongly wrinkled. Chelicerae shiny black. Legs reddish yellow, short and robust. Tibia I-IV with broad, darker rings. Opisthosoma black, dorsally with white or yellow pattern (rarely missing).

Body length male: 4.5-5 mm
Body length female: 4.5-5.7 mm

Additional information

In sunny places with scarce plant growth, natural dry localities, directly on the ground, up to and above 2000 m

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2021): Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China, Korea

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Figures

Pedipalp
(Azheganova 1968)

Pedipalp
(Knoflach 1996b)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Knoflach 1996b)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wiehle 1937)

Pedipalp
(Knoflach 1996b)

Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1937)

Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)

Epigyne
(Wiehle 1937)

Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Vulva
(Azheganova 1968)

Vulva, ventral view
(Knoflach 1996b)

Vulva, dorsal view
(Knoflach 1996b)

Vulva
(Wiehle 1937)

Habitus
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Habitus
(Wiehle 1937)

Distribution List

Albania (no references) ||| Algeria (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Andorra (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Austria (no references) ||| Azerbaijan (Otto, 2020) ||| Belarus (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Belgium (no references) ||| Bosnia and Herzegovina (Komnenov, 2010) ||| Bulgaria (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia (no references) ||| Czechia (no references) ||| Denmark (no references) ||| Estonia (no references) ||| Finland (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France (no references) ||| France / Corsica (no references) ||| Georgia (Otto, 2020) ||| Germany (no references) ||| Greece (no references) ||| Hungary (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Ireland (no references) ||| Italy (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Kosovo (Geci & Naumova, 2021b) ||| Latvia (Cera, 2018) ||| Liechtenstein (no references) ||| Lithuania (no references) ||| Luxembourg (Hermann, 1998; Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Moldova (no references) ||| Montenegro (no references) ||| Netherlands (no references) ||| North Macedonia (no references) ||| Northern Ireland (no references) ||| Norway (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland (no references) ||| Portugal (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania (no references) ||| Russia, Central (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern (no references) ||| Russia, Northern (no references) ||| Russia, Southern (Otto, 2020) ||| Russia, Western (no references) ||| Serbia (no references) ||| Slovakia (no references) ||| Slovenia (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Sweden (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland (no references) ||| Tunisia (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Turkey (Asia) (Danışman et al., 2021a) ||| Turkey (Europe) (Demircan & Topçu, 2016) ||| Ukraine (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) ||| United Kingdom (no references) |||

References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129

Azheganova N S (1968) Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR, 149pp.

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)

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

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

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2021a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2021 [last updated 1 January 2021], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info

Demircan N, Topçu A (2016) First records for spider fauna of the European part of Turkey (Araneae). Serket 15: 85-91

Geci D, Naumova M (2021b) A preliminary checklist of the spiders of Kosovo (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologia Balkanica, Special Edition 4: 11-28

Hermann E (1998) Die Spinnen (Araneae) ausgewählter Halbtrockenrasen im Osten Luxemburgs. Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes Luxembourgeois 99: 189-199

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311

Knoflach B (1996b) Die Arten der Steatoda phalerata-Gruppe in Europa (Arachnida: Araneae, Theridiidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 69: 377-404

Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91

Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp.

Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. 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

Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184

Wiehle H (1937) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VIII. 26: Familie Theridiidae oder Haubennetzspinnen (Kugelspinnen). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 119-222

WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.09.2021) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates

20-06-2021	Distribution update	Detail
08-06-2020	Distribution update	Detail
18-03-2020	Distribution insert	Detail
16-05-2018	Distribution update	Detail