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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Robertus  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879   19 species

Robertus scoticus  Jackson, 1914

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007990

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Description

Epigyne with small groove, directly at strongly sclerotised part of epigastric furrow. Entrance ducts longer than diameter of receptacula seminis. Prosoma dark yellow-brown. Sternum yellow-brown. Chelicerae yellow-brown. Legs yellow-brown. Tarsus darker than legs. Opisthosoma light grey, sometimes very bright yellowish orange to almost white.

Body length male: 1.7-2 mm
Body length female: 2 mm
Additional information

In very damp localities, in woodland and bogs, often under the ground in crevices and mammal burrows

Frequency: Widely distributed

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2021): Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Middle Siberia)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Miller 1967)

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male Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1937)

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male Pedipalp
(Bauchhenss & Uhlenhaut 1993)

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male Pedipalp
(Roberts 1995)

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male Pedipalp
(Locket et al. 1974)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Cymbium, dorsal view
(Locket et al. 1974)

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female Palpal claw
(Wunderlich 1976)

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female Epigyne
(Miller 1967)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)

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female Epigyne
(Wiehle 1937)

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female Epigyne
(Wiehle 1937)

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female Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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female Vulva
(Bauchhenss & Uhlenhaut 1993)

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female Vulva
(Miller 1967)

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female Vulva
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

Distribution List
Austria   (no references) ||| Belgium   (no references) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia   (no references) ||| Denmark   (no references) ||| Estonia   (no references) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France   (no references) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2020) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Liechtenstein   (no references) ||| Lithuania   (no references) ||| Netherlands   (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, Kaliningrad Region   (no references) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Ukraine   (no references) ||| 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 pdf

Bauchhenss E, Uhlenhaut H (1993) Robertus kuehnae n.sp., eine neue Kleintheridiide aus Mitteleuropa (Arachnida, Araneae, Theridiidae). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 37: 25-28 pdf

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) pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). [N.B.: few records from this paper are not taken over and not commented] Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 pdf

Fjellberg A (unpubl.)

Hirna A, Gnelitsa V, Zhukovets E (2016) A checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of the Chornohora Mountain massif (Ukrainian Carpathians). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 16-38 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

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

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

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

Locket G H, Millidge A F, Merrett P (1974) British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp. pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Miller F (1967) Studien über die Kopulationsorgane der Spinnengattung Zelotes, Micaria, Robertus und Dipoena nebst Beschreibung einiger neuen oder unvollkommen bekannten Spinnenarten. Přírodovědné práce ústavů Československé Akademie Věd v Brně (N.S.) 1: 251-298 pdf

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). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

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

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

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 pdf

Wunderlich J (1976) Zur Kenntnis der mitteleuropäischen Arten der Gattung Enoplognatha Pavesi und Robertus O. Pick. Cambridge Senckenbergiana Biologica 57: 97-112 pdf

Updates
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04-03-2016 Distribution update Detail
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