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.)
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.)
Vulva, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
References
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Azheganova N S (1968) Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR: 1-149
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)
Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 
Farlund M (2012) Norwegian Spiders - Norske edderkopper. Online at http://crocea.wordpress.com/norsk-artsliste/
Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin
Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion Natuur Baarn, Netherlands
Sacher P (1984) Bemerkungen zum Material der Gattung Araniella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum Wien (Arachnida, Araneidae). Ann Naturhist Mus Wien 86: 243-249
Sacher P (1990) Untersuchungen über Zahl, Anordnung und taxonomischen Wert der dorso-lateralen Abdominalpunkte in der Gattung Araniella (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zool 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
World Spider Catalog (2018) World Spider Catalog, version 19.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (15.07.2018) doi: 10.24436/2