Araniella proxima (Kulczyński, 1885)
Description
Male palp with long median apophysis, uniformly bent sickle-like toward tip. Epigyne with narrow scapus (1/2 width of epigyne at most), tapering and reaching far beyond epigyne. Epigyne deeply incised on both sides of scapus and with strongly sclerotised tails. Prosoma light brown to brown, male: almost always with dark marginal band. Opisthosoma dorsally with 0-4 pairs of black lateral spots, ventrally almost unexceptionally without distinct spots within (not always) dark median field.
Body length male: 4.5-5.5 mmBody length female: 6-8 mm
Additional information
Mainly in the mountains. Biology mostly unknown
Frequency: rarely found in Central Europe
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Azheganova 1968)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1998)
Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Pedipalp
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, caudal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)
Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)
Tip of bulbus, caudal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Bulbus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Median apophysis
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Azheganova 1968)
Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1998)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1998)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Almquist 2005)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, proximal view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)
Epigyne, anterior view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)
Vulva, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Distribution List
References
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Fjellberg A (unpubl.)
Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin
Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311
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Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
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 (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.
Sacher P (1984) Bemerkungen zum Material der Gattung Araniella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum Wien (Arachnida, Araneidae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B 86: 243-249
Sacher P (1990) Untersuchungen über Zahl, Anordnung und taxonomischen Wert der dorso-lateralen Abdominalpunkte in der Gattung Araniella (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Fennica 190: 345-349
Uyar Z, Bosmans R, Uğurtaş, I H (2014) New faunistic data for the family Araneidae (Araneae) in West Anatolia (Turkey). Entomological News 124: 120-130
Vidal E (2014) Découverte en France d’Araniella proxima (Kulczyński, 1885) (Araneae, Araneidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 1: 13-14
WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (03.01.2021) doi: 10.24436/2
Zamani A, Marusik Y M, Šestáková A (2020a) On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia. ZooKeys 906: 13-40