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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Walckenaeria  Blackwall, 1833   63 species

Walckenaeria vigilax  (Blackwall, 1853)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013406

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Description

Tibial apophysis rounded and simple. Paracymbium small. Epigyne with receptacula seminis visible through epigyne, separated by 1.5 diameter. Epigynal area almost twice as long as wide. Prosoma dark brown, with distinct radial stripes. Legs orange. Opisthosoma grey.

Body length male: 2-2.2 mm
Body length female: 2.25-2.7 mm
Additional information

Prefers humid conditions

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2020): North America, Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far North-East))
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1987)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wiehle 1960a)

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male Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1960a)

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male Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Wiehle 1960a)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1987)

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female Epigyne
(Wiehle 1960a)

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female Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva
(Wiehle 1960a)

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female Vulva
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Prosoma, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Prosoma, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Leg I
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Distribution List
Andorra   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Austria   (no references) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| 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) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Hungary   (no references) ||| Ireland   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Liechtenstein   (no references) ||| Lithuania   (no references) ||| Luxembourg   (Hermann, 1998; Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Moldova   (no references) ||| Montenegro   (no references) ||| Netherlands   (no references) ||| North Macedonia   (no references) ||| Northern Ireland   (no references) ||| Norway   (no references) ||| Poland   (no references) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Kaliningrad Region   (no references) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2020) ||| Russia, Western   (no references) ||| Serbia   (no references) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Spain   (Pérez Sánchez & Méndez Iglesias, 2013; Branco et al., 2019) ||| Sweden   (no references) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) ||| United Kingdom   (no references) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Uribarri I, García-Sarrión R, Carballo P (2014b) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) del espacio natural de O Courel (Lugo, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 25: 33-41 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

Buchholz S (2013) Spider records from East Macedonia and Thrace (NE Greece). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 45: 45-53 pdf

Cera I (2009) Four spider (Araneae) species new to the fauna of Latvia. Latvijas Entomologs 47: 93-94 pdf

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

Fernández-Pérez J, Castro A, Prieto C E (2014) Arañas cavernícolas (Araneae) de la región Vasco-Cantábrica: nuevos registros y actualización del conocimiento. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 25: 77-91 pdf

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

Hermann E (1998) Die Spinnen (Araneae) ausgewählter Halbtrockenrasen im Osten Luxemburgs. Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes Luxembourgeois 99: 189-199 pdf

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 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

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 pdf

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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

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

Pérez Sánchez D, Méndez Iglesias M (2013) Arañas epígeas (Araneae) de los hayedos del Parque Natural de la Montaña de Covadonga (Norte de España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 23: 83-89 pdf

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

Roberts M J (1987) The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: Linyphiidae and checklist. Harley Books Colchester, England, 204 pp. pdf

Wiehle H (1960a) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). XI. Micryphantidae-Zwergspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 47: 1-620 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

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