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Titanoecidae  Lehtinen, 1967 / Titanoeca  Thorell, 1870   15 species

Titanoeca spominima  (Taczanowski, 1866)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022640

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Description

Tibial apophysis with U-shaped process and short thorn. Epigyne with slanting copulatory openings, sometimes appearing triangular. Posterior margin of epigyne not grooved. Prosoma orange-brown. Sternum grey, darkened. Legs brown, grey darkened dorsally. Opisthosoma dark grey to black.

Body length male: 2.9-4.6 mm
Body length female: 2.9-4.6 mm
Additional information

On sandy ground with scarce vegetation

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Albania: Vrenozi (pers. comm.); Hungary: Gallé & Fehér (2006); Ukraine: Singaevsky (pers. comm.; in prep.)
Global distribution (WSC 2020): Sweden, Central Europe
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kupryjanowicz 1997b)

species

male Pedipalp
(Roberts 1995)

species

male Tibial apophysis
(Kupryjanowicz 1997b)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Roberts 1995)

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female Epigyne
(Kupryjanowicz 1997b)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)

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female Vulva
(Kupryjanowicz 1997b)

Distribution List
Albania   (no references) ||| Austria   (no references) ||| Czechia   (no references) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Hungary   (no references) ||| Poland   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2020) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Gallé R, Fehér B (2006) Edge effect on spider assemblages. Tiscia 35: 37-40 pdf

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 pdf

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

Kupryjanowicz J (1997b) Titanoeca psammophila Wunderlich, 1993 in Poland (Araneae: Titanoecidae) Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Science, Biological Sciences 44: 57-60 pdf

Milasowszky N, Bauchhenss E, Freudenschuss M, Hepner M, Komposch C, Zulka K P (2015) Erstnachweise von Spinnen in Österreich (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Linyphiidae, Lycosidae, Philodromidae, Theridiidae, Titanoecidae, Salticidae). Biodiversität und Naturschutz in Ostösterreich ‐ BCBEA 1/2: 296-303 pdf

Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Ponomarev A V, Khnykin A S (2013) Spiders (Aranei) of Volgograd sity and its environs. The South of Russia: ecology, development 4: 109-136 pdf

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

World Spider Catalog (2020) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.03.2020) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
19-01-2016 Distribution update Detail
24-09-2015 Distribution update Detail
24-04-2015 Distribution update Detail
13-05-2014 Distribution update Detail