Silometopus braunianus Thaler, 1978
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 mmBody length female: 1.6 mm
Additional information
Litter layer under green alders, 2000 m
Frequency: Rarely found
Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Thaler 1972b)
Pedipalp
(Thaler 1978a)
Tibial apophysis
(Thaler 1978a)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Thaler 1978a)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Thaler 1978a)
Habitus, lateral view
(Frick et al. 2010)
Epigyne
(Frick et al. 2010)
Vulva
(Thaler 1978a)
Vulva
(Frick et al. 2010)
Habitus, lateral view
(Frick et al. 2010)
Distribution List
References
Frick H, Relys V, Komposch C (2010) Silometopus braunianus (Araneae, Linyphiidae) – neu für Österreich und die Schweiz Jahresberichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubünden 116: 59-64 
Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76
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
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
Thaler K (1978a) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen, V (Arachnida: Aranei, Erigonidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 28: 183-200
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
Updates
| 01-08-2017 | Image insert | |
| 01-08-2017 | Distribution update | Detail |