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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Silometopus  Simon, 1926   16 species

Silometopus braunianus  Thaler, 1978

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012627

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Description

Tibial apophysis long and bent. Prosoma chestnut-brown, shiny, vague blackish reticulate pattern. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma blackish, with 4 dorsal sigilla, outer margin of lung stigma and spinnerets sclerotised, with a dorsal scutum.

Body length male: 1.6 mm
Body length female: 1.6 mm
Additional information

Litter layer under green alders, 2000 m

Frequency: Rarely found

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Alps (Switzerland, Italy, Austria)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1972b)

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male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1978a)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Thaler 1978a)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Thaler 1978a)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Thaler 1978a)

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male Habitus, lateral view
(Frick et al. 2010)

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female Epigyne
(Frick et al. 2010)

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female Vulva
(Thaler 1978a)

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female Vulva
(Frick et al. 2010)

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female Habitus, lateral view
(Frick et al. 2010)

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.

Austria   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Switzerland   (no references) |||
References

Frick H, Rėlys V, Komposch C (2010) Silometopus braunianus (Araneae, Linyphiidae) – neu für Österreich und die Schweiz Jahresberichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubünden 116: 59-64 pdf

Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76 pdf

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 pdf

Thaler K (1972b) Über die Zwergspinnen Nordtirols (Österreich) (Aranei, Erigonida [sic]). Arachnologorum Congressus Internationalis V, Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on Arachnology, Brno. , pp. 239-248 pdf

Thaler K (1978a) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen, V (Arachnida: Aranei, Erigonidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 28: 183-200 pdf

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 pdf

Updates
01-08-2017 Image insert
01-08-2017 Distribution update Detail