Agyneta saxatilis (Blackwall, 1844)
Description
Male palp with often only slightly bent lamella characteristica. Tibial apophysis bent. Paracymbium with 2 small stout hooks. Epigyne with medially indented anterior margin. Prosoma brown, sometimes darkened with black. Sternum black-brown. Chelicerae yellowish-brown. Legs yellowish-brown. Opisthosoma grey-black.
Body length male: 2.0-2.3 mmBody length female: 2.0-2.3 mm
Additional information
amongst grass and low plants in different habitats
Frequency: less frequent
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1987)
Pedipalp
(Schikora 1993)
Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Lamella characteristica
(Schikora 1993)
Paracymbium
(Aakra 2000b)
Paracymbium
(Kupryjanowicz et al. 1997)
Paracymbium
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Tibial apophysis
(Schikora 1993)
Tibial apophysis
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, antero-ventral view
(Schikora 1993)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Locket 1967)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Locket et al. 1974)
Epigyne, antero-ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Aakra 2000b)
Vulva
(Schikora 1993)
Vulva
(Schikora 1993)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus, dorsal 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
Aakra K (2000b) Agyneta mossica (Schikora, 1993) (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in Norway. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 47: 95-99 
Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129
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
Dentici A (2022) Araneofauna (Arachnida Araneae) of Mount Pellegrino (Sicily, Italy). Fourth contribution to knowledge of the Sicilian spider fauna. Biodiversity Journal 13: 641-650
Fernández-Pérez J, Castro A (2016) Arañas de los trampales de Sarriá (Parque Natural de Gorbea, Álava, Península Ibérica). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 28: 114-120
Gnelitsa V A (2004b) [Preliminary data on spiders of the family Linyphiidae of the Vyzhnitsky National Nature Park (Carpathians, Ukraine)]. Nature Reserves in Ukraine 10: 86-89
Hermann E (1998) Die Spinnen (Araneae) ausgewählter Halbtrockenrasen im Osten Luxemburgs. Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes Luxembourgeois 99: 189-199
Katušić L (2008) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) on flooded and non-flooded meadows in Lonjsko Polje Nature Park, Croatia. Natura Croatica 17: 113-130
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]
Kupryjanowicz J, Stankiewicz A, Hajdamowicz I (1997) Meioneta mossica Schikora 1993 in Poland (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Science, Biological Sciences 45: 41-43
Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212
Locket G H (1967) A species of Meioneta new to Britain. Bulletin of the British Spider Study Group 33: 1-2
Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp.
Locket G H, Millidge A F, Merrett P (1974) British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp.
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
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
Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 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
Schikora H B (1993) Meioneta mossica sp.n., a new spider close to M. saxatilis (Blackwall) from northern and central Europe. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9: 157-163
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
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